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Reasoning: Another tool in the toolbox

As regards the supposed inescapability of rationality, or, alternatively, the impossibility of justifying it (or more broadly, its immunity to rational critique whether supportive or undermining), I offer the following considerations.   To begin with, in the back of my mind has always been a kind of puzzle about reasoning -- an unexamined assumption, as it were, of which I have been inchoately and a little troublingly aware and am now attempting to articulate -- namely: Why is the legitimacy of any belief or claim (taking these as actual events and not merely abstract propositions) -- and according to a rationalist, this would seem to be legitimacy  tout court , that is, legitimacy qua a belief or claim, and not just  rational  legitimacy (which term is a kind of redundancy), analogous to the way  moral  demands purport to be categorical and overriding of all other kinds as regards actions -- dependent on  some other  belief(s) or claim(s)...