&gt; You&#x27;re not a philosophy professor though. To steelman the OP a little, it&#x27;s possible that spending your entire life grappling with seemingly unanswerable questions and not really getting anywhere could be pretty depressing.<p>I would expect philosophy professors not to believe such questions are unanswerable, and in fact to believe that they possess, at the very least, a solid start on coherent and true answers.