If we boil away the bluff, the nominalist attack reduces to an attack on mechanical jurisprudence. Through the lines of the attack, and in spite of the heroic calls for the death of law, the nominalists themselves have offered an analysis of how the terms "law" and "legal obligation" should be used which is not very different from that of more classical philosophers.

DEFINE: Distinguishes nominalist legal critique from broader 'death of law' rhetoric, clarifying that the real target is mechanical jurisprudence.

Ronald Dworkin, Ronald Dworkin - The Model …, loc. 20