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 property of bringing us to human (or biological as far as we know it) cognition, where mental models need to be... (read more)
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 property of bringing us to human (or biological as far as we know it) cognition, where mental models need to be... (read more)