Latent and Bound: Meaning That Waits

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This work argues for Latent/Bound as a fourth semantic pair, formalizing the distinction between dormant and bound meaning. Contributions:Formalizes Latent/Bound as an orthogonal semantic primitive Version 1.2 (September 2026): the introduction names the pair before delimiting it, the ballot is the single running example, and the software framing of the examples is stated. Typeset from the web version at dsbl.dev/latentbound.html, which is the source of record.