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sound, that you must add your little contribution, the smaller the safer, and time alone will show how long the theory will last.
Every proposition is doomed to destruction eventually.
There is no such thing as truth and the best one can do is to prefer the falsity that seems to weather the best.
You will find big books discussing real problems and never from cover to cover once advancing any argument except this: "This is the way that thought has been tending. Let us go one little step further."
In arguing for or against action at a distance, or any such question of physical fact, they will quote to you what Gassendi and Descartes thought what Malebranche and Spinoza thought, waht Jeckte and Jacobe and Shelling and Hegel and Herbert and Schleieronacher and Baader thought, what Schopenhauer + Hartmann thought, what Duhring and Nietsehe amd Michowitz thought, - not one of whom