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Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst (1992), Argumentation, Communication and Fallacies, pp 135–139 and 213. David Hackett Fischer (1970), in his Historians’ Fallacies, lists five ways in which historians use pedantry as a means of asserting their expertise: their use of particular language, references, detail and mathematical symbols, and the practice of writing at great length. See also Douglas N. Walton (1995), A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy, especially pp 43–46.