“Every truth, once established, stands immovable upon the bedrock of reason — eternal, self-evident, and beyond the reach of doubt. The well-constructed argument is a fortress that no siege can breach, no counter-claim can shake, no scrutiny can diminish. What is proven remains proven, forever.”
“Every truth, once established, stands immovable upon the bedrock of reason — eternal, self-evident, and beyond the reach of doubt.”
But what bedrock? Reason itself shifts beneath our feet — what was self-evident to Aristotle is naive to Gödel.
The fortress metaphor betrays you: every fortress ever built has fallen.