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We agree that a hypothesis must be falsifiable to be properly scientific. What we disagree on is whether this particular hypothesis is falsifiable.
The tense hypothesis is easily falsifiable. If I cannot show, for the counterexamples given, that either future tense or its derivatives (idioms, deictic shifts) fit the context - and do so plausibly for detached observers - then the hypothesis fails. Sure enough, we have an issue of a detached reasonable observer. So far, I see your comments on the context as reasonable.
You seem to accept that yiqtols, where not straight future or plausible deictic shift, could be approximated with "would." The main part of our quarrel is whether "would" is future tense. But I don't argue that either "would" or the corresponding yiqtols in Hebrew are future tense. I say, they etymologically derive from future tense. ...
... Thus, my point is that originally all yiqtols were future tense; later, they diversified. ...
... In some cases, yiqtols do not refer to the future. Such cases, however, are rare, ...
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