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If language is so ambiguous, emotionally laden, relative, personal and collective, how far can it be trusted in conveying knowledge?
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... If language is so ambiguous, emotionally laden, relative, personal and collective, how far can it be trusted in conveying knowledge? Language is ambiguous. Language is emotionally laden. It is relative, personal and collective and yet I strongly believe it can - to an extent - be trusted in conveying knowledge. However, I need to use a few examples to support my thesis that yes it can be trusted, but also that there is a line that has to be drawn where language can not be trusted. When your mother tells you not to lie, otherwise you'll grow a long nose like Pinocchio, you will know that lying is a bad thing. However, one will not just grow a long nose after having told a lie; however, the aim of what was to be brought across has been achieved although strictly speaking a lie had been told in the first place.
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