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That doesn't work, because
is defined as a mapping from
to the reals; if you change
, then you also change
, and so you can't define them out of order.
I suspect you're confusing
, the individual policies that an agent could adopt, and
, the complete collection of policies that the agent could adopt.
Another way to express the theorem is that there is a many-to-one mapping from choices of
to Pareto optimal policies that maximize that choice of
.
[Edit] It's not strictly many-to-one, since you can choose
s that make you indifferent between multiple Pareto optimal basic policies, but you recapture the many-to-one behavior if you massage your definition of "policy," and it's many-to-one for most choices of
.