Trialogue on Reason

Let us consider a hypothetical scenario in which a mere rational and merely reasonable person have engaged a metarational in debate. For the sake of our illustration, let us say that the subject of this debate is the necessity of reason. Our merely rational person shall be called Hyparch, our merely reasonable person shall be called Epiphanes, and our metarational shall be called Metalogos. Now let the trialogue unfold!

Hyparch: Friends, surely it is so that the authority of reason can be traced to the very foundations of knowledge; that as long as we have reason, we shall have rational belief. For without reason, we are reduced to the irrational, which is absurd.
Epiphanes: Friend Hyparch, I understand your sentiment well, but one cannot stand upon the foundations of reason. One needs basic knowledge on which to employ this reason. You must agree, lest you be left without foundation and be considered irrational yourself.
Hyparch: My dearest Epiphanes, I fear I do not fully see your contention with my statement. Of course one needs foundations of knowledge, but why should I not be able to learn them with reason? Any reason will do!
Epiphanes: Why Hyparch! It amazes me that you do not see the circularity that drives you into madness! What you have is a castle in the air, and as elaborate and beautiful as it may be, it will fall without any foundation.
Hyparch: So you admit that I have built a beautiful castle! Why concern oneself with such a superfluous luxury as a foundation when elegance and coherence can be achieved, each wall, even each stone, supporting another! This is a far, far greater thing to achieve, O Epiphanes.
Epiphanes: Woeful friend Hyparch! What do the parts matter when the whole is fated for destruction?
Hyparch: I have told you, Epiphanes, that the parts supporting one another secure the whole! After all, you have yet failed to explain whence are you precious foundations besides reason itself!
Epiphanes: My foundations are those which evidence their very selves, especially myself.
Hyparch: Do you then build your palace upon yourself? Really, Epiphanes, you dare to call me mad?
Epiphanes: Indeed, Hyparch! I call you mad. That which seems to reveal itself stands much more strongly than nothing at all!
Hyparch: But wherefore should we rely on the appearance of self-evidence? By what means was this learnt?
Metalogos: Enough, O friends! It is clear to me that you do not understand.
Hyparch and Epiphanes: You are right, friend Metalogos. If only we knew!

And with that it is clear how metarational position is first by far the most understanding and second certain to attain an expedient and irrefutable victory in any debate by precisely the means exhibited above. Always approach a metarational with humility, for it is no simple matter for the metarational to communicate clearly with a merely reasonable person and especially a merely rational person.