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la pycyn cusku di'e
(what is the official line on requantifying an already quantified variable?)
The closest thing to an official line is the last section
of chapter 16, which does not make sense as far as I can tell.
The way I interpret requantification is this: The second
time a variable is quantified, there is an implicit
restriction to the same set to which the variable was
restricted the first time. So if the first appearance is
{Q1 da poi broda}, and the second appearance is {Q2 da poi brode},
then this last one is equivalent to {Q2 de poi broda zi'e poi
brode}. Which quantifier Q1 is plays no role in the second
quantification. If Q1 were to play a role (as the Book suggests)
then we would have strange consequences, like {su'o da poi broda}
and {naku no da poi broda}, which should be equivalent, giving
different results for the second quantification.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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