  A danger remained of deriving a kind of imperative from an indicative. No doubt Napoleon very much wanted to win the battle. Does awareness of that fact commit me to prescribing, on the counter-factual supposition that I am Napoleon, that Napoleon be victorious? Here Hare makes further use of his thesis that the meaning of “I” is partly prescriptive: to hypothesize “if I were Napoleon” is already to “identify with his prescriptions”, in the sense of prescribing that, other things being equal, they be satisfied within the scope of the hypothesis (1981: 96–9). 