What are you trying to get/do? I'm asking very seriously, as I can't quite tell where we land between philosophy of language, human behaviour and cognition, AI architecture or some unification problem of them.
From philosophy of language perspective, I personally like to argue that hypotheticals in past tense are just wrong, but are used in the same way present and future tense versions are: expressing internal belief about how causality will play out for the sake of aligning them in a group.
I'm aware of other approaches, but that has a convenient pro... (read more)
A post that attempts to evaluate the arguments for and against this principle would likely be more philosophical. A post that tried to draw out the practical consequences would tend to be more on the side of decision theory, though I expect it would involve delving into the philosophy as well.
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I dont see why philosophy of language would tell you how reality works
What are you trying to get/do? I'm asking very seriously, as I can't quite tell where we land between philosophy of language, human behaviour and cognition, AI architecture or some unification problem of them.
From philosophy of language perspective, I personally like to argue that hypotheticals in past tense are just wrong, but are used in the same way present and future tense versions are: expressing internal belief about how causality will play out for the sake of aligning them in a group.
I'm aware of other approaches, but that has a convenient pro... (read more)