Observation

Observation[1] is, as Rudolf Steiner explains in «Truth and Knowledge», the confrontation of thinking with the given (Lit.:GA 3, p. 67), which appears through (sensory or supersensory) perception. Observation is based on purposeful, attentive and thus already thought-guided perception and as such forms the solid empirical foundation of scientific knowledge. No science can be founded on random, haphazard and disordered perceptions. Conceptually, observed properties are captured by observational concepts.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Wahrheit und Wissenschaft, GA 3 (1980) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Philosophie der Freiheit, GA 4 (1995) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen durch Anthroposophie, GA 108 (1986), ISBN 3-7274-1081-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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