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[lojban-beginners] Repeating specific sumti within the same bridi



I might be overthinking this considerably, but is there a way to specify that a an entity referred to multiple times in a bridi is the same exact entity each time it is referred to? For instance,

le du'u lo dacti cu barda narju bo bolci na nibli le du'u lo dacti cu najnimre

"The fact that an object is a large, orange sphere does not imply the fact that an object is an orange." is what this appears to say to me, though what I mean to say is more like "Just because *something* is big, round and orange doesn't mean [the same *something*] is an orange." 

In other words, how do I prevent myself from saying something like "the fact that one thing (e.g. a basketball) is big, round and orange does not imply the fact that some *other* thing (which may not be big, round, or orange at all e.g. a potato) is an orange," which seems kind of pointless to state.

Also: Do pro-sumti like ri, ra, and ru (and others) imply the same referent as their first incarnation, or could a "ra" referring to "lo dacti" be referring to an entirely different entity which is also a "dacti"? Can those even refer to internal sumti?

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