It is impossible to prove that something is true in an absolute sense, that is, prove it is innately true. To do so would first require that the mechanisms or arguments used in the proof do indeed lead to truth. However, that requires that those mechanisms or arguments, used to show the former mechanisms or arguments are true, be shown to lead to truth. Ad infinitum. At some point, we may even question whether the idea of proving leads to truth, yet that is not in question because the definition of proving is the assembling of mechanisms or arguments to reveal truth. However, that in no way means that there are mechanisms or arguments that will lead to truth (for reasons given above). We cannot even be sure that the mechanisms or arguments are innately true themselves.
If something were innately true, we would not have to prove that it were true because we would know it innately. This is true with the senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, and such. Though the blind and the deaf may not see or hear, it does not nullify the fact that it is true that the person reading this sees and possibly hears. I may be the only person who exists to experience such sensations, yet the person reading this might make the same claim. I cannot prove that they experience them, though it does not nullify the fact if they do. Likewise, I experience the sensations and someone else cannot prove that I do not, however, they are unable to prove the fact to themselves, the fact being that I experience such sensations. To them, I speak what they think is only true for them and thus they make think that I speak merely myth. Somehow, that is quite unlikely, thus if someone reads this and contemplates on the notion that I might not be capable of any sensations, they ought to reconsider the idea - for if I write these things, it does not prove that I can experience some sensations, but there is great evidence for another soul in the world like them.
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