The case
A4: “Replacing ‘Clément’ with ‘Doug’ would be a glaring error in a historical translation. But structurally, the translator’s name occupying the corresponding slot captures something about what Marot himself was doing. So Hofstadter is implicitly asking whether relational invariance can sometimes matter more than token identity.”
What it can show
That what a rendering preserves can be a position in a structure rather than a token: a sign’s significance set by its relations (CLAIM-082). It is the seed of the invariance programme, and it is absent from the manuscript.