Will_Sawin comments on Rationality Quotes: June 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 14 June 2011 06:04:11PM 0 points [-]

That doesn't quite answer his question, I believe.

You have to point not just to people called logicians, by themselves or others, but to useful logical progress made by such people.

Comment author: Larks 14 June 2011 11:22:32PM 1 point [-]

Boolos did Frege's theorem, Quine did New Foundations, among other things, Kripke our standard modal-logic semantics... I don't how useful they are, but they're definitely logic.