While both yourself and others are more informed about this than myself, and while I'm not entirely sure I understand your query, maybe the following will be useful to you. Having read 'Possibility and Necessity' a long time ago, I only recently read "Judgement and reasoning" properly. In it is described a very interesting problem with the method of asking young children (< 7 yrs) about the reasons for their judgements. All too often, they simply do not have access to the mental structures that lead them to their judgements, let alone being able to reflect upon justifications etc.
being necessary, pseudo-necessary, or otherwise.?Therefore, presenting arguments and counter-arguments, which are tantamount to expressions of reasoning, are (for young children) not the means the by which they can judge the validity or force of their judgements. An adult's reasons would therefore carry just as little force (by "reasoning"). Indeed, in my experience, the little blighters can be amazingly stubborn in resisting the force of my own hyper-rational arguments :-).
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