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um, I think you're missing the overall point of his post; he states that we sometimes have accurate theories but our box of tools-mathematical techniques-is yet underdeveloped to make full sense of them.
it might be the case that he's taking a naive view etc, but from your post it appears that has little to no significance to his overall point.
also, to any who downvoted, please refrain from down-voting without attempting to explain your disagreement. it's obviously not good practice.
No, up and down votes are symmetrical. Both should usually be done without explanation.
I disagree; an explanation of a downvote is a lot more helpful to the author than an explanation of an upvote (in addition to the fact that it often mitigates status-based anger), and thus the symmetry is broken. h-H is perhaps exaggerating this principle, but it's perfectly legitimate to say "that comment looked OK to me, what are you seeing?"
seconded, and well put.
Strong second.