“Reasonableness” is linked to convincing power / rhetoric, which is inherent in communication and its effectiveness.

“Reasonableness” is linked to convincing power / rhetoric, which is inherent in communication and its effectiveness.

Concepts do not exist without people communicating them and the boundaries of concepts are assigned by the communicators and are accepted or rejected on a social / community basis.
Dictionaries reflect usage and are descriptive although they CAN be used prescriptively but only as a negotiation point: “do we agree this is the common meaning?” and not as some kind of absolute platonic objectivity

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