Certain lawyers (we may call them "nominalists") urge that we solve these problems by ignoring them. In their view the concepts of "legal obligation" and "the law" are myths, invented and sustained by lawyers for a dismal mix of conscious and subconscious motives. The puzzles we find in these concepts are merely symptoms that they are myths. They are unsolvable because unreal, and our concern with them is just one feature of our enslavement.

DEFINE: Introduces the nominalist school of legal philosophy, which treats legal concepts as constructed myths rather than real entities.

Ronald Dworkin, Ronald Dworkin - The Model …, loc. 11