Hmmm … that seems sensible, and produced a shift, but not enough to move my overall weighing. Cue metacognitive doubts about whether I’m just status-quo biasing into protecting my original decision. :-)
FWIW, I went through pretty much the same sequence of thoughts, which jarred me out of what was otherwise a pleasant/flowing read. Given the difficulty people unfamiliar with the notation faced in looking it up, maybe you could say “∃ (there exists)”, and/or link to the relevant Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_quantification)?
If you’re comfortable rephrasing the sentence a little more for clarity, I’d suggest replacing the part after the quantifier with something like “some length of delay between behavior and consequence which is short enough to produce the effect.”
Hmmm … that seems sensible, and produced a shift, but not enough to move my overall weighing. Cue metacognitive doubts about whether I’m just status-quo biasing into protecting my original decision. :-)
Note also that non-alphanumeric symbols are hard to google. I kind of guessed it from context but couldn’t confirm until I saw Kaj’s comment.
FWIW, I went through pretty much the same sequence of thoughts, which jarred me out of what was otherwise a pleasant/flowing read. Given the difficulty people unfamiliar with the notation faced in looking it up, maybe you could say “∃ (there exists)”, and/or link to the relevant Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_quantification)?
If you’re comfortable rephrasing the sentence a little more for clarity, I’d suggest replacing the part after the quantifier with something like “some length of delay between behavior and consequence which is short enough to produce the effect.”
I also didn’t know what it meant, and it didn’t seem worth my time to look it up, it just made the post harder to read.
@dust_to_must: Suggestion adopted. Thanks!