- conceptual analysis of will yields an objective basis for a normative ethic - conceptual analysis of will yields its constitutive law - the constitutive law of will, considered from a practical standpoint of reflection, determines the regulative law of will and thereby the morals that govern its agents : privately see `^^constitutive versus regulative norms$`i @ 14_default+stable_ground/research.notes.brec rework+ ? how reconcile will’s having always been there — thus perhaps for an infinite period of time, having achieved (it would follow) zero existential risk — with it now being at risk, as my thesis implies|demands? : see @ 11_will_2.brec | perhaps a more direct form of constitutive argument : see @ 11_will_2.brec + hold to this, see how far it can go on plausible premises alone ? what of the phenomenological/ontological hairiness of a (self-determined) will that outlives/transcends any individual? : see @ 11_will_3.brec