> As an analogy, albeit a rather silly one, if (in mathematics) I put a 
> dot over a (single-letter) variable name to indicate (say) first 
> derivative or something, I would have to put an /extra/ dot over i, 
> would I not? Does that not make it "conceptually" dotless, even though 
> it's rendered with a dot?

Since i is soft-dotted presumably you'd take off a dot, and then put on a dot. 
Clear as mud!

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