Quote: qualified names, e.g., an employee's children, has problems of uniqueness, singularity, no qualifier, changing qualifier

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Conditions for effective qualification e.g., use of an employee as a qualifier to identify his dependents: uniqueness within qualifier (but an employee's dependents may share the same name), singularity of qualifier (but some children may be dependents of two employees), existence of qualifier (but benefits could be expanded to a charitable community service), invariance of qualifier (but two married employees may split their dependent children for tax purposes).

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