Still, it wasn’t until I met Mike Huemer at UC Berkeley that I found my lifelong cure for intellectual paralysis. Huemer called it “intuitionism,” but it’s largely a rebranding of the pre-existing “philosophy of common sense.” The Huemerian response to all of the preceding demands for “proof” boils down to, “It’s obvious! End of story.” The less terse version: “The point of a proof is to move from more obvious propositions to less obvious propositions. So demands for ‘proof’ of the most obvious propositions are confused.” The maximally terse version, though, is a simple: “Bah!”