verbalism
Example Sentences
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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
This 'science,' therefore, finally reduces to mere verbalism, distracted by inconsistent relapses into 'psychology.'
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
This use of words would again become mere verbalism, a mere talking about words—mere speculation having nothing to do with facts or with correct thinking, in which there is no intermixing of dimensions.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
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
