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    It is not the case that If 'N' and 'M' could in principle be reclassified as logical constants under an alternative demarcation, the argument's validity would become analytic rather than formal.

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    • 1.Reclassifying N and M as logical constants changes what we're evaluating, not whether the original argument's validity was formal or analytic.
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    • 2.Analyticity requires necessity independent of demarcation; truth remaining stable across classification systems suggests formal, not analytic status.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemic accessibility with metaphysical status—a distinction between how we know validity and what validity fundamentally is.
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    • 1.Logical constants are defined by their role in inference rules, not by metaphysical essence, so reclassification is genuinely possible.
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    • 2.Analytic validity depends on meaning-relations alone; if N and M become meaning-constitutive under alternative demarcation, validity becomes analytic.
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    • 3.Formal validity's contingency on demarcation choices shows it lacks the necessity characterizing analytic truth, supporting this distinction.
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