 There was another deleterious side to Cook Wilson’s influence in Oxford: his contempt for mathematical logic. It explains why one had to wait until the appointment of Hao Wang in the 1950s for modern formal logic first to be taught at Oxford. In the 1930s, H. H. Price was still teaching deductive logic from H. W. B. Joseph’s An Introduction to Logic (Joseph 1916a) and inductive logic from J. S. Mill’s System of Logic. This reactionary attitude towards modern logic and later objections to ‘ordinary language philosophy’ go a long way to explain why Cook Wilson’s reputation dropped significantly in the second half of last century. In the 1950s, Wilfrid Sellars was virtually alone in his praise: