"I hope that in the morning you will be more receptive to reasoning."
Which to my reasoning was about the highest endorsement possible.
The simple reason is that their arguments do not stand up to logic and reasoning.
They aren't used to reasoning; nothing of that kind is being taught in the high schools.
But there seems to be more to their reasoning.
"Unfortunately, I think there's probably another strand to their reasoning."
Economists have, in fact, often been frustrated by public opposition to economic reasoning.
But in the crisis, the young professors were the only ones who clung to such reasoning.
Not surprisingly, executives of real estate service companies take exception to such reasoning.
You, and the world, are listening to my reasoning.