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A single word—Bedürfnis—had, on Cuhel's diagnosis, thrown the foundations of value theory into confusion, bundling together at least eight distinct concepts under one popular name. Written on the borderland of economics and psychology, this 1907 treatise pries them apart, distinguishing welfare-, use-, and disposal-needs and making the 'use-desire' the first fundamental concept of economic science. Cuhel rejects the hedonism of Bentham and Gossen, argues that the desire-intensity he calls Egenz can be compared but never truly measured—anticipating the later turn to ordinal utility—and reworks Gossen's law of diminishing enjoyment into precise statements about marginal use-egenz. Along the way he criticizes Böhm-Bawerk, Wieser, Menger, and Sax, and treats the discounting of future needs not as a direct effect of time but as a matter of practical probability.
Diesen Vorgang kann man somit nicht Messen nennen; für ihn dürfte die Benennung Skalieren eher passen.
English translation: “This procedure, then, cannot be called measuring; the term scaling would be more appropriate for it.”