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See cousin_it's previous post on the formalization of mathematics. As I stated in a comment in that thread, formalized mathematics tools are still extremely primitive from a HCI standpoint.
Unfortunately, philosophical arguments are not likely to be amenable to formalized reasoning. Paul Graham has pointed this out in one of his essays:
These tools are definitely very primitive. If you look at it from a "glass is half full" standpoint, that is a good thing - it means nobody else has gotten there first! :)