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THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE ESSAY: THE SURREPTITIOUS EXPLOITATION OF LANGUAGE JACK CHANG #114727 WORD COUNT: 1585 MAY 12 2003 MRS. MOGYOROSHI BLOCK E THE SURREPTITIOUS EXPLOITATION OF LANGUAGE By Jack Chang In today's society, we live in a world that seeks to conceal rather than to reveal. However, education has challenged us to evaluate the vast wealth of knowledge that we acquire on a day to day basis and assess how much information is actually being exposed to us and how much is being masked from our perception. Indeed, we are bombarded by daily doses of fallacies that exist even within the information that we are being given; there is no doubt that they are deeply embedded within the social fabric of society in which we seek comfort in. Yet the plethora of deceptive techniques being employed in today's society amounts to an incredible, if not shocking, figure. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once claimed that "words are more treacherous and...

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