 Second, the future mental state envisaged by Binkley is only hypothetical: \(If\) no test is given by Thursday, the student will find the announcement incredible. At the beginning of the week, the student does not know (or believe) that the teacher will wait that long. The principle of reflection ‘Defer to the opinions of my future self ’ does not imply that I should defer to the opinions of my hypothetical future self. For my hypothetical future self is responding to propositions that need not be actually true.