Somehow, I missed this in your post.
What I actually said was that if he thought the question--never mind how much stock he put into a particular answer--was at all important he would have addressed it in his published work. He didn't address it because HIS THEORY WASN'T ABOUT THAT.
But that's almost the same thing, so if I don't hear from you I'll assume we're still in agreement.
We're still in agreement. :^)