Bound to Implicate

by JLS
for the GC


I'm not too sure what people mean when they say 'free logic' but there you have.

I'm surprised by this colloquial English expression,

"It's bound to rain".

I will say that it's Kantian in nature. For, as the title of a book where G. Strawson contributed, there are "bounds of freedom".

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Logicians speak of 'free variables,' which are not bound.

If Grice said (in 1941).

"I shall be fighting soon"

surely he could have had cancelled the entailment with "but I won't, you know. I can always change my mind. I'm a free spirit".

----- People have to take people 'for their word', and so on.

But some usages as I read them from

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/bound_2

in the ps may clarify stuff. Or not.

J. L. Speranza


bound2 S2 W3 [no comparative]
1
likely
be bound to
to be very likely to do or feel a particular thing:

"Don't lie to her. She's bound to find out."

----- Grice will say this is "hyperbole" as in "Every nice girl loves a sailor" (his example in WoW:II). Surely it might be the case that she won't (or shan't) find out.

"it is bound to be" (=used to say that something should have been expected)

'It's hot!' 'Well, it was bound to be, I just took it out of the oven.'

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"When you are dealing with so many patients, mistakes are bound to happen."

(again, hyperbole)

"I'll be bound"

old-fashioned used when you are very sure that what you have just said is true:
He had good reasons for doing that, I'll be bound.

11
bound and determined
American English very determined to do or achieve something, especially something difficult:

"Klein is bound and determined to win at least five races this year."

----- To prove that "bound and determined" is the most Kantian way to prove freewill requires first an examination as to why a brute's choice is not free (really). Kant -- 'arbitrium brutum' and 'arbitrium liberum').

And so on.