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Idle or vain talk.
- 1850, George Field, The analogy of logic, and logic of analogy, London: David Bogue, page 140 [1]:
In philosophy, however, it is to be deplored that eloquence too commonly passes for science, being mistaken for logical acquirement; but truth alone is the just eloquence of philosophy, and without it the finest composition is, to the logician, but babbling and vaniloquence.

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 ==English==
 ===Etymology===
-Latin ''vanus'' vain, and ''loquentia'', talk
+{{etyl|la}} {{term|vanus||vain}}, and {{term|loquentia||talk}}
-===Noun===
+===Noun===
-# Idle or vain talk.
+{{en-noun|-}}
-#* '''1850''', George Field, ''The analogy of logic, and logic of analogy'':
-#: ''In philosophy, however, it is to be deplored that eloquence too commonly passes for science, being mistaken for logical acquirement; but truth alone is the just eloquence of philosophy, and without it the finest composition is, to the logician, but babbling and'' '''vaniloquence'''.
+# [[idle|Idle]] or [[vain]] [[talk]].
-====References====
-''The analogy of logic, and logic of analogy''. London: David Bogue. p140
+#* '''1850''', George Field, ''The analogy of logic, and logic of analogy'', London: David Bogue, page 140 [http://google.com/books?id=-zEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA140]:
+#: In philosophy, however, it is to be deplored that eloquence too commonly passes for science, being mistaken for logical acquirement; but truth alone is the just eloquence of philosophy, and without it the finest composition is, to the logician, but babbling and '''vaniloquence'''.