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Another solid article.
One point of confusion for me: You talk about axiomatic *faith* in *logic* (which is necessary in some form to bootstrap your introspective thinking process), but then abruptly switch to talking about "the last ten million times that first-order arithmetic has proven consistent", a statement of *observed prior evidence* about *learned arithmetic*. Both points are valid, but it seemed a non sequiter to me to abruptly go from one to the other.
Oh well, off to cast half a vote in the Michigan Primary.