00, notes      / repository branch 05      !! high and dry, unable to make a confident start      | I lack confidence in my arguments because none is convincing in itself      - though the arguments cohere well enough, and each is at least plausible      ? is it true that *none* is convincing?      | at least one argument is convincing in itself      - stability entails the autotelic principle, whereby it *is* constitutive of reason      - I can make this argument directly at the outset      / it does not depend on the full outlook argument      : see 70.brec      - it depends only on:      a) disengagement from the existential mechanisms of the other normative sources      b) theoretic and practical necessity vs. contingency      c) the criterion of success vs. failure of reason      - not only the constitutive argument, but also the principles of reason depend on criterion (c), and perhaps (b) too      + consider starting with this      / much as originally planned, but with more confidence I hope      | no rhetorical thread to weave through the arguments      - though the arguments cohere well enough, I fail to come to grips with the task of writing them because I see no storyline or other rhetorical handle that would unify them      | put motivation and meaning first, hanging the arguments confidently from that      - there hooking the general reader, as I was hooked      - thereafter holding him (and so maintaining confidence) through each argument      sync+ with notes      : privately see ~/work/ethic/._/05/20_origin.notes.brec      : privately see ~/work/ethic/._/05/._/origin.notes_boneyard.brec      : see notepad:all