{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77a/1921-07-27/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we look at the development of science on the one hand and the development of historical views on the other, then it must be said that anyone who, with all seriousness and from the inner experiences of the whole human being, the full human being, experienced the last stage of development of our spiritual life at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the twentieth century encountered, as it were, two cornerstones; two cornerstones, one of which once caused a great stir but is now almost forgotten, that is, forgotten from the point of view that it is no longer consciously remembered. But it lives on in the way in which questions of world view are treated today. This cornerstone is the once famous “Ignorabimus” – “We will never know” – of Du Bois-Reymond from the 1870s. Du Bois-Reymond, who was a representative natural scientist of his time, wanted to strictly define the boundaries of scientific thought, and he concluded the debates in which the natural scientist's ignorabimus was contained with the words: Natural science will never be able to fathom the essence of the material itself, that is, the essence of that which underlies the external world, the world that can be observed by our senses and dissected by our minds. In the face of this world, one must utter the ignorabimus — Du Bois-Reymond believed — because anything that would go beyond the indicated limits would lead to supernaturalism. This would lead to a kind of supersensible research — Du Bois-Reymond believes, by presenting the sentence in a monumental way, that where supernaturalism begins, science ends.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Knowledge of Nature and Knowledge of the Mind","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-07-27","location":null,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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Aber er lebt fort in der Art und Weise, wie man heute Weltanschauungsfragen behandelt. Dieser eine Eckpfeiler ist das einstmals berühmte «Ignorabimus» — «Wir werden niemals wissen» - Du Bois-Reymonds aus den siebziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts. Du Bois-Reymond, der geradezu ein repräsentativer Naturforscher seiner Zeit war, er hat die Grenzen naturwissenschaftlichen Denkens in strenger Weise zeichnen wollen, und er hat ja auch jene Auseinandersetzungen, in denen das Ignorabimus des Naturforschers enthalten ist, mit den Worten beschlossen: Naturwissenschaft werde niemals ergründen können das Wesen des Materiellen selbst, also das Wesen dessen, was zugrunde liegt der äußeren, durch unsere Sinne beobachtbaren, mit dem Verstande zu zergliedernden Welt. Gegenüber dieser Welt müsse man das Ignorabimus aussprechen — so meinte Du Bois-Reymond —, denn alles dasjenige, was über die angedeuteten Grenzen hinausgehen möchte, führe in den Supernaturalismus hinein. In eine Art übersinnlicher Forschung führe das — meint Du Bois-Reymond, indem er den Satz monumental hinstellt, daß, wo Supernaturalismus anfängt, die Wissenschaft aufhört.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p009"}],"english":["GA 77a/1921-07-27/p009"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":273,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6886,"original_word_count":6580,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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