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As we had occasion to observe regarding satisfaction (1.0), the beginning and end of our study are intimately allied. Both are concerned with having value. In 1.0 we studied the person’s possession of value. We could call this an act of possessing, if possessing were an act. Here the individual possesses the value x, or the value of x, by enjoying x. Without this unique and unanalyzable experience there would be no vocabulary of value, even if there were other vocabularies. Life, and life at other “levels” than man’s, is scarcely thinkable without the energy and impetus provided by constant or repeated satisfaction of need and want, and the ceaseless alternation of want and satisfaction.
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Aschenbrenner, K. (1971). Absolute Valents. In: The Concepts of Value. Foundations of Language, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3093-9_17
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