Assertion: legal reasoning | /r/HasProperty | b
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text: In turn, this would seem to indicate that interpretation, because of its dualistic nature, has a role to play in both legal reasoning in sense (a), i.e. reasoning to establish the existing content of the law on a given issue, and legal reasoning in sense (b), namely reasoning from the existing content of the law to the decision which a court should reach in a case involving that issue which comes before it.