Byzantinism treats theoretical questions as self-valuable apart from practice.

Evidence

One may term “Byzantinism” or “scholasticism” the regressive tendency to treat so-called theoretical questions as if they had a value in themselves, independently of any specific practice. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 811

Categorization

• DEFINE: Directly defines the term Byzantinism/scholasticism — a vocabulary-building concept for the toolkit.