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.”
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.”