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rational – “Neither Succos nor Shavuos has a last day that is a yom tov.” So if I invite you for the day meal on Shavuos, you won’t ask me if the invitation is for the first day or last day of Shavuos?! You will carefully ask me if it is for the first day or second day (not c”v calling it the “last day”).
That’s called a circular argument:
Why is the last day of Pessach called “Acharon”, because Shavuos does not have a last day! Why does Shavuos not have a last day? Because only Pessach has a last day…classic circular logic. Not very “rational”.