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It is fascinating to review Dummett's intellectual autobiography. While critical of Austin and Grice, it was via Austin that Dummett became who Dummett was. This optional paper programme for Dummett's BA had Dummett exploring Frege's "Foundations" that Austin had translated.
As Beaney, Neale, Horn, and others have showed, there is a lot of agreement between Frege's and Grice's views on the workings of natural language. Dummett was never emphatic about this. Rather, he focused on what he saw as the negative side ('noxious') of the type of linguistic botany that had Austin, Strawson, and Grice, explore underlying mechanisms for the explanation of divergences between first-order predicate calculus and, shall we say, English. And so on.
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