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After continuing to read to find the answer, I believe I have found it. If you read the thrown trait, the last two sentences appear to contain the solution:
"You can throw this weapon as a ranged attack. A thrown weapon adds your Strength modifier to damage just like a melee weapon does. When this trait appears on a melee weapon, it also includes the range increment. Ranged weapons with this trait use the range increment specified in the weapon's Range entry."
To me, this seems to fairly concretely imply that a melee weapon with the thrown trait is not a ranged weapon, it just allows you to make ranged strikes with it.