User blog comment:Edwin Shade/My Hierarchy Of Mathematical Understanding/@comment-32213734-20180111204545/@comment-32876686-20180111222141

This is silly, if we try to question everything not "rigorously proven" then we will find ourselves in the predicament of Achilles and the Tortoise in Lewis Carroll's short story: What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, and we will never come to a common agreement. I fear philosophy has caused you to make knots out of simple straight-forward issues.