[tgv]

Sophistry unfortunately didn't die in the 70s, but it's not a bad book, IIRC. It's ages ago that I read it, but it does take a very formal, undergrad-philosophy-of-science model as the one and true model, which everybody religiously adheres to. Pedantic might be a better predicate. Which is odd, now that I think about it, because you can't really be pedantic without believing you know the truth.

[mistermann]

One can certainly be accused or perceived as being pedantic without thinking oneself to know the truth though, or actually being pedantic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics