This term pedant is very equivocal, but common usage, it seems to me, and even reason would have it that we call those people pedants who, in order to parade their false science, quote all sorts of authors, whether right or wrong, who speak simply in order to be heard, and to be admired by fools who, without judgment or discernment, amass apothegms and historical references to prove, or seem to prove, things that can only be proved by arguments.