His father used to get knocked for odd verbalism, syntax, etc. but nothing, nothing like GW. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As it turns out, this is not a popular view: already Russell (1923) argued that the very idea of wordly indeterminacy betrays a “fallacy of verbalism”, and some have gone as far as saying that de re indeterminacy is simply not “intelligible” (Dummett 1975: 314; Lewis 1986: 212) or ruled out a priori (Jackson 2001: 657). ❋ Unknown (2009)
It has been noted that people do creative work in the social sciences at a later age than people in science and maths, I think that is because it takes longer to find out the genuine problems that are hidden in the verbalism. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I will not weary you with the verbalism, since you will be able to check it; the substance of my proclamation is this: I announce first that I have captured the English millionaire, the colossus of finance, Mr Samuel Harrogate. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Without action, teaching is merely verbalism and amounts to exhorting the farmers to do this or that without showing them how to do it and thus has limited impact on their farming practices. ❋ Unknown (1982)
There is still another aspect - that of impotence disguised by verbalism: taking a stand on legal positions which cannot become a reality and planning counter-measures for contingencies that always differ from the one at hand. ❋ Unknown (1971)
It was to be taken up again some centuries later by the Port-Royal grammarians in a far more adequate form, freed from the hampering medie - val veneration for authorities and from the sterile verbalism of the Schoolmen, and based on a far broader foundation of factual knowledge of languages. ❋ ALVAR ELLEG (1968)
The au - thor looks with distinct disfavor on the baroque, its sensual mysticism, its externality, its verbalism in con - trast to the truly Dutch (and at the same time universal) art of Rembrandt. ❋ REN (1968)
Not only do I think Holt misfires here, but my philosophic conscience is aroused by his readiness to explain historic error as the result of the besetting sin of verbalism, particularly by his hacking on poor old Aristotle. ❋ Hawkins, David (1966)
We may surround the subject with a vague and attractive idealistic verbalism, but we come back to this as a starting point. ❋ Chapman Cohen (N/A)
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. ❋ Walter Lippmann (1931)
But if he forgets that he has substituted and simplified, he soon lapses into verbalism, and begins to talk about names regardless of objects. ❋ Walter Lippmann (1931)
Though it can be cultivated, good verbalism is an innate ability, and a most valuable one. ❋ Unknown (1921)
If verbalism were confined to professional philosophers, no harm would be done. ❋ Thomas Stearns (1920)
Metaphysics used words and conceptions of multi-dimensional meanings which of necessity resulted in hopeless confusion, in “a talking” about words, in mere verbalism. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)
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. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)
If only these three words could be scientifically defined, philosophy, law, ethics and psychology would cease to be “private theories” or verbalism and they would advance to the rank and dignity of sciences. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)
As regards grammatical forms, Vico may be described as an adherent of the great reaction of the Renaissance against scholastic verbalism and formalism. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
Aristotelian logic itself did not become mere syllogistic and verbalism, without some stumbling and oscillation. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
