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I see Ronald Jensen is on the list. Is he actually American? booth.adam 14:08, 14 November 2006 (PST).

How do I add a logician? I have in mind Gerald E. Sacks - he is a prof. at Harvard, there is a prize given in his name, and he is probably the greatest recursion theorist alive.

subcat problem[edit]

I think there's a bit of an issue with the category memberships here. Currently this category is a subcat of Category:American mathematicians and Category:U.S. philosophers. However not every logician is a mathematician, and not every logician is a philosopher, even though almost every logician is at least one of those two. So some of these people may be hereditarily categorized where they don't really belong. --Trovatore 21:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed and removed. Paradoctor (talk) 16:23, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I disagree, In an ideal world sub cats would actually be proper subsets, but in the real world, this doesn't always work out. If every logician is either a philosopher or a mathematician, it's not that bad to have them in both. An alternate would be to split them - into mathematical logicians and philosophical logicians perhaps?--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:43, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The point here is that people categorized as logicians should not be automatically categorized as mathematicians or philosophers, because either of these might not be correct. I don't see a need for subcategorization, as this one is not large, but if you want to do it, I have no problem with that. Paradoctor (talk) 17:45, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]