Full Idea
The incompletability of formal arithmetic reveals, not arithmetical truths which are not truths of logic, but that logical truth likewise defies complete deductive characterization. ...Gödel's result has no specific bearing on the logicist project.
Gist of Idea
The incompletability of formal arithmetic reveals that logic also cannot be completely characterized
Source
B Hale / C Wright (Intro to 'The Reason's Proper Study' [2001], §2 n5)
Book Reference
Hale,B/Wright,C: 'The Reason's Proper Study' [OUP 2003], p.4
A Reaction
This is the key defence against the claim that Gödel's First Theorem demolished logicism.