 But if (R) implies (L) as a matter of meaning, and (L) implies (D) as a matter of meaning, then (R) implies (D) as a matter of meaning. This conclusion can be questioned: why should the material equivalence of \(F\) and \(G\) imply the existence claim (D) as a matter of meaning? In other words, the suggestion that Va (i.e., the right-to-left direction of Basic Law V) is analytic leads to a question that has no obvious answer. Below, this line of reasoning will be adapted to question the analyticity of the right-to-left direction of Hume’s Principle. See Boolos 1997 (307–309), for reasons why \(Vb\) (the left-to-right direction of Hume’s Principle) is not analytic.]