Thanks for the elaboration. Your distinction about creating vs reconciling preferences seems to hinge on the distinction between “ur-want” and “proper want”. I’m not really drawing a type-level distinction between “ur-want” and “proper want”, and think of each flower as itself being a flowerbud that could further bloom. In my example of Alice wanting X, Bob wanting Y, and Carol proposing Z, I’d thought of X and Y as both “proper wants” and “ur-wants that bloomed into Z”
Thanks for the elaboration. Your distinction about creating vs reconciling preferences seems to hinge on the distinction between “ur-want” and “proper want”. I’m not really drawing a type-level distinction between “ur-want” and “proper want”, and think of each flower as itself being a flowerbud that could further bloom. In my example of Alice wanting X, Bob wanting Y, and Carol proposing Z, I’d thought of X and Y as both “proper wants” and “ur-wants that bloomed into Z”