Determining what is “reasonable” is closely related to the overarching process we call “reasoning,” a progression of thought based upon the logical relation between truths. … Reasoning involves recognizing a “link in actual things, that makes one thing the ground, warrant, evidence, for believing in something else.”

Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide …, loc. 247