"No": Was: Grice on Dummett

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We see that, as Jones realises, Grice left a little note that read:

yes-philosophers: Austin, Grice, Hampshire, Strawson, Warnock,...
no-philosophers: Murdoch, Anscombe, Dummett,...
overage-philosophers: Ryle, Austin.

In his memoir Quine indeed may have started the rumour, spread by Owen, inter alii, that attendance at Saturday Mornings (by the "New" Play Group) was controlled devised by Austin to preclude particular individuals.

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In "Saturday Mornings", Warnock writes that attendance to Austin's "New" Play Group (on Saturday mornings, at various colleges, including Grice's alma mater, Corpus Christi, or his St. John's) was:

"restricted to persons both
junior to Austin and employed
as whole-time tutorial Fellows".

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If Dummett was at All Souls, he would not have qualified as 'whole-time tutorial fellow', either.

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To the "new" Play Group we could then add:

---- Hart
---- Urmson
---- Pears
---- Thomson
and R. M. Hare.

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But the 'no' philosophers remained: Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, and Dummett -- according to this note by Grice.

Cheers.