This would be a great memento, but unfortunately most of us only ever pull it out when faced with ideas we don't like.

I agree more or less whole-heartedly with the spirit of the essay — intuition and resonance are inferior mechanisms of inference to deductive reasoning, even if they're sometime right.

But I wonder (because I write the same kind of essays) whether arguments like this can do all that much to fundamentally transform how people think.

Those ready for such essays usually only need a subtle push to improve the way they think.

But it's precisely those so resistant to changing how they think who we would most hope to reach.

That's not a criticism of your essay, just a problem I'm trying to solve.