Inferential Standing Under Evidential Preservation: Non-Inheritance and Projection-Relative Non-Identifiability of Continuing Inferential Warrant

This paper examines whether preservation of an evidential state is sufficient to preserve the standing of the same inference drawn from that state. It introduces the Inferential Warrant Non-Inheritance Theorem (IWNI), a formal result showing that even where the warranted anchor, comparison basis, measurement accuracy, measured relation, proposition identity, historical inferential warrant, operative standing of the warrant specification, and absence of sufficient independent positive and negative current bases are held fixed, current inferential standing need not be identifiable from the preserved evidential projection without information establishing current coverage. The result is established through a paired determination-state construction in which two admissible states share the same preserved evidential projection while differing in current coverage and therefore in current inferential standing. The paper distinguishes preservation of evidence from preservation of what that evidence is currently warranted to establish, while explicitly avoiding claims of temporal decay, universal revalidation, substantive truth criteria, or priority over existing work on non-identifiability, defeasible inference, measurement invariance, transportability, and related fields. The analysis is developed as a formalization of a non-inheritance boundary within the Škrinjar Structural Architecture (SSA). Central boundary: PRESERVED EVIDENTIAL STATE DOES NOT ENTAIL PRESERVED INFERENTIAL STANDING.