True, but sometimes it still makes sense to do such a conditional analysis of a phenomenon: “Assume that X is happening. Why might that be the case?”, while also making it explicit that this is a conditional.
Sometimes, when evidence is too sparse, this is the main thing you can do.
Although there’s also the risk of modality escape / people may not get that you’re hypothesizing conditionally.
True, but sometimes it still makes sense to do such a conditional analysis of a phenomenon: “Assume that X is happening. Why might that be the case?”, while also making it explicit that this is a conditional.
Sometimes, when evidence is too sparse, this is the main thing you can do.
Although there’s also the risk of modality escape / people may not get that you’re hypothesizing conditionally.