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That point is utterly trivial. You can implement any possible relationship between input and output. That even includes minds that are generally rational but will fail only in specifically-defined instances - such as a particular person making a particular argument. This does not, however, support the idea that we shouldn't bother searching for valid arguments, or that we'd need to produce arguments that would convince every possible information-processing system capable of being convinced.