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Will that hold up in a court of law? That "we make our own reality- everything is subjective" idea will get you exactly nowhere in the actual world of actual things. You can't assert that nothing can be proven conclusively, because that implies that nothing is certain, which means you are essentially asserting that nothing can be asserted. That doesn't work.
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It's not supposed to - a court of law and a philosophical debate are two very different things.
If you haven't already, you should read about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.
Don't think that I walk around wondering if anything is real, or whether the laws of gravity might suddenly give up - that's not it at all - but we're not talking about the actual world of actual things. I can assert however that nothing can be proven, because I accept that there has to be some element of 'faith' for anything to make any sense - I know it sounds contradictory, but it's not. Proof is not a requirement for truth.