{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1922-05-11/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Of course, when I speak to you about the relationship between anthroposophy and science, I will speak in such a way that you will not deviate from what you are accustomed to recognize as scientific conscientiousness and thinking. But I will not have to speak about individual fields, but rather, to a certain extent, about the entire structure of the scientific edifice of the present day. And since I have to assume that among you, dear fellow students, there are members of the most diverse fields of science, I will naturally not be able to do justice to the individual needs, and some things will have to be said in a way that is not meant to be abstract, but which is looking in an abstract way, so that perhaps the individual will have to draw the consequences from what I have to say for the individual fields. Agnosticism is a word that is not often used today, but it denotes something that is indeed related to the foundations of our scientific way of thinking. This agnosticism was established, I would say, as a justifiable scientific way of thinking, or perhaps better said, a philosophical way of thinking, by personalities such as Herbert Spencer. It was he who preferred to use this term, and if we want to find a definition of agnosticism, we will have to look for it in his work. But as a basis, as a fundamental note of scientific thought, agnosticism exists in the broadest fields of knowledge in the present day. If we are to say in the most abstract terms what is meant by agnosticism, we could say something like the following: we recognize the scientific methods that have emerged as certain in recent centuries, we use them to pursue appropriate science, as we must pursue it today in certain fields - through observation, through experiment, and through the process of thinking about both experiment and observation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Und da ich vorauszusetzen habe, daß unter Ihnen, verehrte Kommilitonen, die Angehörigen der verschiedensten Wissenschaftsgebiete sind, so werde ich natürlich den einzelnen Bedürfnissen nicht gerecht werden können, und manches wird gewissermaßen in einer nicht abstrakt gemeinten, aber doch abstrakt ausschauenden Höhe sich bewegen müssen, so daß vielleicht aus dem, was ich zu sagen habe, für die einzelnen Gebiete der einzelne die Konsequenzen erst zu ziehen haben wird. Agnostizismus ist ja ein Wort, das heute weniger oft ausgesprochen wird, das aber etwas bezeichnet, was doch durchaus mit den Grundlagen unserer wissenschaftlichen Denkweise zusammenhängt. Es ist ja dieser Agnostizismus, ich möchte sagen als eine zu rechtfertigende wissenschaftliche Denkweise, besser gesagt vielleicht philosophische Denkweise von Persönlichkeiten wie Herbert Spencer begründet worden. Es ist ja auch vorzugsweise von ihm dieser Terminus gebraucht worden, und wenn wir die Definition des Agnostizismus suchen wollen, so werden wir sie bei ihm suchen müssen. Aber als eine Grundlage, gewissermaßen als eine Grundnote des wissenschaftlichen Denkens existiert ja dieser Agnostizismus in den weitesten Erkenntnisgebieten der Gegenwart. Wenn man zunächst ganz abstrakt sagen soll, was mit dem Agnostizismus gemeint ist, so könnte man etwa das folgende sagen: Man erkennt die wissenschaftliche Methoden an, die sich als sichere in den letzten Jahrhunderten herausgebildet haben, man treibt mit ihnen sachgemäße Wissenschaft, wie wir sie heute ja auf gewissen Gebieten treiben müssen - durch Beobachtung, durch das Experiment und durch dasjenige, was die gedankliche Verarbeitung sowohl des Experiments wie der Beobachtung ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/75/1922-05-11/p006"}],"english":["GA 75/1922-05-11/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":305,"en_words":323,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":16789,"original_word_count":16506,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA075/English/SOL2024/19220511p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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