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So far so good. I look forward to the hard stuff :) And thanks for engaging my request.
Actually, your calling second-level agreement "endorsement" has led me to wonder whether there's a special term for desires that you want to want, want to want to want, and so on ad infinitum, analogous to common knowledge or Hofstadter's hyperrational groups (where everyone knows that everyone knows etc. that everyone is rational).
"Reflectively consistent."
I think that's for beliefs, not desires.
Particularly because you can bring your beliefs and metabeliefs, etc., into alignment by reflection, whereas making your desires consistent requires at a minimum some kind of action, and may not be possible at all (except for the trivial case of instrumental second-order desires as in Ex. 1).