Modality, expected utility, and hypothesis testing

Abstract We introduce an expected-value theory of linguistic modality that makes reference to expected utility and a likelihood-based confirmation measure for deontics epistemics, respectively. The account is probabilistic semantics yet it proposes epistemics share common core modal semantics, as in traditional possible-worlds analysis modality. argue this not only theoretically advantageous, but also has far-reaching empirical consequences. In particular, we predict versions reasoning fallacies from the heuristics biases literature. Additionally, derive entirely transparent manner, based on compositional Korean expressions are morphosyntactically decomposed into conditional evaluative predicate.