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Contrary to conventional wisdom, logicians do not necessarily indulge in scientific formalism. On the contrary, some of them, using notions such as intentions and expectations, situate the evaluation of identities (and authenticities) in an anthropological framework. Theodore Scaltsas, for example, goes so far as to maintain that the reconstruction of an object from its own materials is or is not identical depending on who carries out the reconstruction and with what intentions. The sometimes comical debates between logicians about the identity of Theseus’s ship or of the Parthenon can indeed prove enlightening, even beyond disciplinary boundaries. It is this point that we wish to illustrate in this paper, as well as with our ongoing anthology project.