H. P. Grice (M. A. Lit. Hum., St. John's) and C. K. Grant (P. P. E., Wadham): conversation as rational co-operation -- Grant, "Pragmatic implication," Philosophy, vol. 33

Colin King Grant, 

Born at Bournemouth, Grant studies at 
Clayesmore  and at Wad- 
ham where he 
takes a First Class in P.P.E. 

 

Grant is a starkly and at 
times disconcertingly honest 
man.

What Grant thinks, Grant says, 

And he sees no virtue in saving what he does not think.

For bin compromise with dishonesty wa 
a surrender of values that an 
Universitv was instituted TO dt 
fesd. The compromise might b 
with ideologies that subordinar 
rhe pursuit of truth to politics 
evaluation : or with views 0 
education that make ir an init 
a non into sneial relationship 
rather than a laborious cultiw 
rion of critical intelligence 
these and other forms, whereve 
they were found, were targets 0 
his attack. So was the voeabi 
lary in which they reveale 1 
themselves (a favourite abom 
nation was describing a Univei 
siry as " a community '*). 

His generous, exigent teac/i 
mg. and his practical krndoes 
tn newly-arrived colleagues weri 
not interrupted by the paiflfu 
and partly disabling sciatic 
that he faced for years with hi 
own hlend of courage am 
realism. Last summer he sui 
fered a stroke, but was meodini 
enough to look forward to soit) ( 
lecturing in Easter Term../ 
second stroke in February lo 
to death within a few days 
his family, his University am 
his friends are the poorer foi 
ir. 

He married in 3961 Dr Alisor 
Stoddarr Wallace, by whom bf 
leaves two sons.