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And we have to say to ourselves: we are entering an area where we form hypotheses based on the laws of nature that the mind can gain from external observation and through external experimentation in relation to the sensory world. We come into a region where this mind, so to speak, encounters a fluid, a something that cannot evoke in us the feeling that we can actually approach a being with these mental constructs that we hypothetically form and that, if they are to have a value, can only have this value if they point to something real, to something that exists.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Und wer sich nicht durchaus auf den Standpunkt stellen will, daß wir es heute «so herrlich weit gebracht» haben, der muß aus diesen Empfindungen, die er gegenüber diesem Aufbauen von Hypothesen haben kann, doch sagen: Die Hypothesen, die in der letzten Zeit ausgebildet worden sind, werden wiederum durch andere abgelöst werden. - Wir sind da gewissermaßen mitten drin, die alte Lichthypothese durch eine andere - von den elektrischen Erscheinungen hergenommene - zu ersetzen. Und wir müssen uns sagen: Wir kommen eben in ein Gebiet hinein, wo wir uns Hypothesen bilden aufgrund dessen, was sich der Verstand gegenüber der sinnlichen Außenwelt aus der äußeren Beobachtung und durch das äußere Experimentieren an Naturgesetzen erringen kann. 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