From Dury's online study:
"boulomaic modality can be paraphrased as "it is hoped/desired/feared/regretted that…".
"Rescher (1968: 24-6) includes "want" under boulomaic modality (see also Simpson 1993: 47-8).
Perkins (1983: 11) classes boulomaic modality as a type of dynamic modality because of the 'disposition' meaning."
"It could also be said that the disposition comes from the desire of a human source so is similar to deontic volitive modalities where a subject aspires to influence the world."
"It ranges from not-wanting through not-opposing to wanting."
"Palmer (1986: 12) suggests that 'bouletic' would be etymologically preferable."
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