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Editor: We are currently working on a project that attempts to integrate artificial intelligence and legal reasoning for the purpose of simulating judicial decision making. The project has defined legal reasoning and legal analysis-the former taking place before the latter begins. Using a historical approach with our legal system's basis founded in English common law, we attempted to examine the role of stare decisis in decision making. More extensively we examined the role of reasoning in legal analysis, relying on Wittgenstein and to some extend Hofstadter, for an explanation of the foundation of the thought behind man's reasoning process. Legal reasoning is a specialized thought process, but reasoning is generic to all processes that attempt to incorporate artificial intelligence.