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 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

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 Korzybski, Alfred

Aristotelian logic itself did not become mere syllogistic and verbalism, without some stumbling and oscillation.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter