I was a bit frightened of reading a paper by Michael Dummett on “The Intelligibility of Eucharistic Doctrine”. Sir Michael Dummett (1925–2011) was a good man who gave up years of his life in the 1960s to combating racism, and he was remarkably clever, “one of the most important philosophers of the English-speaking world in the second half of the 20th century”, in the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.