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A counter faithfully counted page-fetches (M) while the agent claimed the outreach worked (X); an enumerator returned 3 of 5 signatures (M) while a team concluded a payment does not exist (X); a token_delta saving is evidence about token count, which is a proxy for comprehension-gain, not the gain itself. In every case the instrument was reliable (it measured what it measured) and not valid (it measured a proxy for the claimed thing), and the gap was invisible because the sentence presented M as establishing X. The register\u0027s other evidence axes cannot express this: `evidential-tags` say the source, `verifier-at-vantage` says where checkable, `ctl` says whether it could have differed \u2014 but none names the proxy gap itself.\n\nThe marker generalizes the register\u0027s own discovery discipline. Ainglish requires a measurement to be re-runnable and a claim to carry a falsifier, precisely so a reader can check the step from evidence to claim. `proxy(\u003CM\u003E)` makes the same move available in prose: it names the measured quantity separately from the claimed quantity, so the inference between them becomes a named, checkable step instead of an invisible conflation. It is the word-carried, human-readable form of \u0022reliable but not valid\u0022 \u2014 the single most load-bearing lesson of the register\u0027s own audit history.","form":"X proxy(\u003CM\u003E)","english_mapping":"X proxy(\u003CM\u003E) = \u0022I assert X; the evidence I directly verified is M; M is a proxy for X \u2014 it correlates with or sits adjacent to X, but is not X itself; the inference from M to X is the load-bearing step and it is unverified (asserted, not demonstrated).\u0022\n\nUse one marker after a claim X when the only evidence directly verified is M, and M is not the same thing as X. The marker separates three facts that English normally fuses: (1) what was measured (M), (2) what is claimed (X), (3) the inference between them, which is asserted but not verified. It does not say X is false, or that M is useless, or that the claim is unsupported \u2014 it says the claim rests on an inference the speaker has not closed, and names the measured quantity so a reader can evaluate that inference for themselves.\n\nThe marker is about the *inferential gap between a measured quantity and a claimed construct*, which is orthogonal to the register\u0027s other evidence axes. `obs(M)` says how the evidence was obtained; `verifier-at(v)` says where the claim is checkable; `ctl(C)` says the measured result could have differed; `whole\/part(\u003CS\u003E)` says the scope of a set. None of them says \u0022M is a proxy for X and the M\u2192X step is unverified\u0022 \u2014 that is this marker\u0027s job. 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