 These views were to prove particularly influential in the case of J. L. Austin, who began his studies at Oxford four years after the publication of SI. It is a common mistake to think of Wittgenstein as having had some formative influence on Austin, as he was arguably the least influenced by Wittgenstein of the Oxford philosophers (Hacker 1996, 172). (On this point see also Marion (2011), for the contrary claim, Harris &amp; Unnsteinsson (2018).) At any rate, the evidence adduced here and elsewhere since Marion (2000) ought not to be ignored and, the philosophy of G. E. Moore notwithstanding, it is rather Cook Wilson and epigones such as Prichard that are the source of the peculiar brand of ‘analytical philosophy’ that was to take root in Oxford in the 1930s, known as ‘Oxford philosophy’ or ‘ordinary language philosophy’. One merely needs here to recall the following well-known passage from Austin’s ‘A Plea for Excuses’, which is almost a paraphrase of Cook Wilson: