  This entry is concerned with legal reasoning in senses (a) and (b), and with sense (b) in particular. It should be noted that the discussion does not directly address the different accounts of the nature and limits of law which are revealed by those varying views mentioned above regarding what it is that judges do when they reason about the law in sense (b). Where such differences have a bearing upon issues pertaining to the role of interpretation and coherence in legal reasoning, they will be mentioned in the text. For further discussion of the nature and limits of law, see various entries under nature of law in this volume.