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What does it means "a transcaction" and "an executed purpose?"
So far as you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result, clearly the quicker and easier it is brought about the better. Your resolve to secure a sufficiency of food for yourself and your family will induce you to spend weary days in tilling the ground and tending livestock; but if Nature provided food and meat in abundance ready for the table, you would thank Nature for sparing you much labor and consider yourself so much the better off. An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction in which the time and energy spent on the execution are balanced against the resulting assets, and the ideal case is one in which the former approximates to zero and the latter to infinity. Purpose, then, justifies the efforts it exacts only conditionally, by their fruits.
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An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction in which the time and energy spent on the execution are balanced against the resulting assets,
What does it means "a transaction" and "an executed purpose?"
19 mar 2013 14:10
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"Transaction" means "exchange of goods or services". "Executed", in the sense of an executed purpose, means "to put forth into action". A "purpose" is a "goal or defining urge to do something in order to give something value".
So to rephrase, they're saying that by putting forth an action to reach an urgent, valuable goal, you've thus exchanged your time and energy (goods) in order to reach that goal of having infinite assets for zero time/energy exchanged. In reality, this cannot happen, so the more hopeful situation is that the assets receieved are simply greater in value than the time lost.
19 marzo 2013
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Inglese, Coreano
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Inglese
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