JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-2004)

“To signify, language is needed,

But signs have all been superseded.

All presence is absence,

And absence is non-sense:

In selling this crap I've succeeded."

WILFRID SELLARS (1912-1989)

I’m down with my man, Wilfrid Sellars,

He’s one of those cool Pittsburgh fellars,

Just totally driven

To junk what he’s given:

He's one of the great myth dispellars.

DONALD DAVIDSON (1917-2003)

With that grand Davidsonian flair

It was Donald who said, “Don’t despair!

When you meet someone new

And they’re talking to you,

Just assume that there's something up there."

GOTTLOB FREGE (1848-1925)

“You all have to read my Begriffsschrift,

Post Kant it should bring you great uplift.

The symbols are crazy

And all oopsydaisy,

It's logic's remarkable Boole-shift."