I was trying to tease apart whether you were talking about human behavior or the abstract concept of 'reasoning'. The latter is formalized in logic and has part

I was trying to tease apart whether you were talking about human behavior or the abstract concept of 'reasoning'. The latter is formalized in logic and has parts that are not merely syntactic (with or without stochastic autocomplete). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_of_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_of_logic