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Ideas for Jacques Lenfant, Jacques Derrida and Oswald Veblen

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic

10247	We have no adequate logic at the moment, so mathematicians must create one [Veblen]
	Full Idea: Formal logic has to be taken over by mathematicians. The fact is that there does not exist an adequate logic at the present time, and unless the mathematicians create one, no one else is likely to do so.
	From: Oswald Veblen (Presidential Address of Am. Math. Soc [1924], 141), quoted by Stewart Shapiro - Philosophy of Mathematics
	A reaction: This remark was made well after Frege, but before the advent of Gödel and Tarski. That implies that he was really thinking of meta-logic.

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

21889	'I' is the perfect name, because it denotes without description [Derrida]
	Full Idea: 'I' is the perfect name, because it denotes without description.
	From: Jacques Derrida (works [1990]), quoted by Barry Stocker - Derrida on Deconstruction

21878	Names have a subjective aspect, especially the role of our own name [Derrida]
	Full Idea: We can give a subjective account of names, by considering our own name.
	From: Jacques Derrida (works [1990]), quoted by Barry Stocker - Derrida on Deconstruction

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential

21879	Even Kripke can't explain names; the word is the thing, and the thing is the word [Derrida]
	Full Idea: Even Kripke can't explain names, because the word is the thing, and also the thing is the word.
	From: Jacques Derrida (works [1990]), quoted by Barry Stocker - Derrida on Deconstruction