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-\section{Notation}
+\stdsection{Notation}
+
+Throughout, any free variables are implicitly universally quantified
+at the outermost level.
 
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@@ -30,8 +33,16 @@ is to be taken as applying to both $\py$ and $\pn$.
 All of these sets will be disjoint by construction
 (see Invariants, below).  Hence:
 
+\item[ $\foreign$ ]
+The set of all commits which are not part of a Topbloke branch.  We
+call these foreign commits.
+
+\item[ $\set A$, $\set P$, $\ldots$ ]
+Arbitrary sets of commits.  Maybe $\set P = \p$ i.e.\ some $\py$ or $\pn$, but
+maybe not.
+
 \item[ $ \patchof{ C } $ ]
-Either $\p$ s.t. $ C \in \p $, or $\bot$.
+Either $\p$ s.t. $ C \in \p $, or $\foreign$.
 A function from commits to patches' sets $\p$.
 
 \item[ $ \pancsof{C}{\set P} $ ]