Sorry to take so long. Generally you bring up interesting things and I tend to put them on one side to answer later. Then comes a veritable torrent that buries me. I am also in the middle of setting up an Agoura - a market place of ideas. The idea came from my experiences on FW.
We need a place where differing ideas can collide and from their friction produce light as well as heat.
So, excuse my delay.
I think that connote beats denote anytime, but there you are. I've connoted "desire" and promised to deal with "exertion". But, now you want verbs as well.
"Man's desires are unlimited" refers of course to homo sapiens and as I'm not a homophobe, I don't think ill of Mankind. I think they are doing the best they can.
And they have desires.
A desire is a longing for something. Unlike 'want', or 'wish', desire implies an intention to satisfy. We can glean your desires from your actions.
A desire is a longing that is strong enough to stimulate one to try to satisfy it.
"Unlimited" means just that. Our desires run from the everyday needs to long term possibilities that may become probable as time goes by.
Man seeks to satisfy his desires with the least exertion.
Exertion is the outward manifestation of everything within the individual. Exertion is particularly important in political economy (not economics) for the product of our exertion is our Wages. (That's an "official" word, so I have capitalized it.)
The important word is "seeks" (looks for). The least exertion isn't always found, but we'll look for it and prefer it.
Harry
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Ray answering Brad:
However, I would enjoy someone else or better still you take another look at
Information Theory or the Theory of Codes as a basis for examination of the
Three Basic Realms of Harry and Company.
Harry I'm still looking for a denotative definition of your nouns and active
verbs in your assumptions because I have visceral reactions to your
statements but in truth I have no conscious idea of what you mean since your
words are your own. Contextual descriptions are just hints and not nearly
specific enough for examination of a word. A number maybe in a math
formula but not a word. Words are not Math formulas. They are
something else. A symbol that goes to the root of our being and even
carries meaning and power across space. Imagine how important 2 is.
You remember 2 don't you? But if I say Jerusalem. That is indeed
different and you have to know which Jerusalem I am speaking of, otherwise
we will fight over it for 4,000 years.
Hi Selma,
Regards
Ray Evans Harrell
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