I guess there have been a few variations of the hiarchy of levels over the years...
Until this post was raised from the Vaults of the Monastery, I had never considered the matter. So by default, I accepted that they were created, fully formed and intact on the day the Monastery was built. That's the sort of wrong conclusion that is drawn from not thinking something through. Having said, if we think everything through, we never actually achieve much beyond lots of thinking.
IMHO thinking is in short supply in society. But it is also possible, although rare, to overdo it