Grice and Strawson on "Introduction to Logical Theory"

Grice

But of course Grice was lying! He knew much more logic than he accepted in the footnote to "Vacuous Names".

Indeed, his claim to fame, back in the 1940s at St. John's, on St. Giles, was that of an expert in logic, rather than philosophy.

It was logic that Grice taught to his favourite tuttee: P. F. Strawson.

Strawson was grateful and kind enough in crediting this in the Preface to "Introduction to Logical Theory". Dedicated to "H. P. Grice" ("Mr. H. P. Grice" if you must -- since nobody took a DPhil at Oxford in those days -- it would sound presumptuous and overqualified) "from whom I have never ceased to learn about logic".

So it may do to revise what Strawson has to say about " = " in "Introduction to Logical Theory". Or not!