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All of the ways of knowing are controlled by language.” What does this statement mean and do you think it is a fair representation of the relationship between perception, emotion, reason and language?
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"All of the ways of knowing are controlled by language." What does this statement mean and do you think it is a fair representation of the relationship between perception, emotion, reason and language? Knowledge by itself involves the use of language, but also a variety of several other issues such as perception, emotion and reason. Due to this reason, it is not fair to state that all the ways of knowing is controlled solely by language. Language, emotion, reason and perception are all dependant on one another so we cannot say that language controls it all. All of the ways of knowing means how we have attained the knowledge we have now. Knowledge can be distinguished into two types; knowledge of things and the knowledge of truth. However, did one attain all their knowledge simply with the use of language? This seems highly impossible as perception, emotion, reason and language are...
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