Like you, I like to think that I've thought through such things. Even so, I've found that all too often I've based a lot of my thinking on preconceived notions that I simply accepted as true.
In fact, no matter how hard you try to think things through, you're going to find that at some level you must simply accept on faith the idea that certain basic assumptions are true.
In fact, no matter how hard you try to think things through, you're going to find that at some level you must simply accept on faith the idea that certain basic assumptions are true.
That's not quite the same point I understood you to be making earlier.
Of course it's true that not everything can be proved. My only point is that I try to think carefully about the things I care about, the things I express opinions on, and I try to understand what are the things I'm taking for granted (the things I'm not going to, or am not able to, prove).
As I said originally, I make up my own mind about things. I didn't say I can prove everything.