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

Colin King Grant

Born at Bournemouth, be studies at Clayesmore and at Wadham, 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 cultivation of critical intelligence these and other forms, whereve they were found, were targets 0 his attack. 

So was the vocabulary 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. 

Grant married Alison Stoddarr Wallace, by whom he leaves two sons.