verbalism

Through the echoes of the new verbalism, one can sense the distress of that crystal spirit, George Orwell.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if he forgets that he has substituted and simplified, he soon lapses into verbalism, and begins to talk about names regardless of objects.

From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann

The impotent verbalism of the formal treatment of judgment appears in another way when the question is raised how a 'true' judgment is to be distinguished from a 'false.'

From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray

But there is always much verbalism in idealism.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

There is a certain affinity, apparently at least, between that formal vice of verbalism and another defect of the mind, whose origins may, however, be varied.

From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola