Surely it isn't too much trouble to mentally insert "My intuition is that" before the GP's interesting comment. When dealing with a hard problem, whose solution

Surely it isn't too much trouble to mentally insert "My intuition is that" before the GP's interesting comment. When dealing with a hard problem, whose solution is many steps removed, we routinely use educated intuition to guide us. It seems to me that insisting on empiricism in this space, at this time, would practically mean halting most thought on the topic.