Your comment resonates deeply with a tension I‘m struggling with as a lawyer when writing legal briefs: On the one hand, the desire to present each argument as

Your comment resonates deeply with a tension I‘m struggling with as a lawyer when writing legal briefs: On the one hand, the desire to present each argument as one independent, bite-sized piece. So they are easy to grasp for the judge, and easy to refer to in discussion. And on the other hand, an almost „gravitational pull“ that causes individual arguments to explain themselves in terms of others, blurring boundaries between individual points. A pressure for any one point within the argument to go into recursion. Which might make the argument stronger and more convincing. But which also blurs its contours. And leads to redundancy within the document. I have not yet found a way to gracefully solve this tension.