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If that expression as a whole is going to turn out to be true,
then there can be only one expression that evaluates to false
on its argument list, and since we already have it in custody,
we know that the remaining arguments, (s_1), ..., (s_k), will
all have to be true.  In effect, the spike collapses the lobe
to a node, leaving a conjunction of the negations of 