verbalism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In Mr. Bradley's difficulty in seeing how sugar can be sweet intellectualism outstrips itself and becomes openly a sort of verbalism.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

The weird verbalism of the traditional Logic suggests a problem which strikes deeper even than the question, 'What do you mean by truth?' viz.:

From Pragmatism by Murray, D. L.

We may surround the subject with a vague and attractive idealistic verbalism, but we come back to this as a starting point.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman

In the place of book-learning, which disgusts him by its smell of the closet, its continued prating of Aristotle, and its self-exhaustion in useless verbalism, Sanchez desires to substitute a knowledge of things.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard