Supererogation: Evidence for Exhaustivity in Deontic Reasonin

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper revisits the paradox of supererogation which remains problematic for extant theories of deontic modality. I build on Lassiter (2011, 2017) and claim that a simple exhaustification of the expected utility-based semantics resolves the problem. Independent evidence comes from Korean, where expressions conveying modal necessity morphosyntactically encode exhaustivity.

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