 Strawson also made important contributions to the assessment of Austin’s theory of speech acts and Grice’s own model of meaning. Finally, he responded to the anti-realist approach developed by Dummett, which also gained its adherents, in ‘Scruton and Wright on Anti-Realism’ (1976), a brief but brilliant critique which argued that there are no obvious reasons to adopt the anti-realist account of truth, and moreover that it is hard to make that account consistent with what appear to be obvious facts about the knowability (or unknowability) of our psychological lives and the past.