verbalism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

While this operatic verbalism with its faults and merits cannot of course be assigned wholly to Peele, he seems to have been in the drama one of its earliest and most influential purveyors.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

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

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 Benedetto Croce

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 D. L. Murray