Grice's Dogmas: Hypostasis and Transubstantiation

--- by JLS
------ for the GC

--- IF THERE'S ONE THING that defines me as an Anglican (I converted at an early age) is the denial of the transubstantiation of the bread/wine into body/blood of Christ. I'm not sure what it amounts to, but it sounds romantically and romanically absurd to me.

YET GRICE (PPQ, vol. 67, p. 3) keeps talking about it! After characterising the positions of a Quine or a Davidson as 'diagnostic realism' -- which rely on 'hypothesis' that may or may not be proved by science, Grice's own sympathy relies, "not so much on hypothesis, but on hypostasis"!