Paradox of Language

Language is a conceptual tool like math. Neither of these systems can remain useful to the user if they remain closed off for the reason that it is necessary to make amendments and additions upon new discoveries and revelations. Just as math has its paradoxes, so too does language. For what seem like solid systems for structuring our concepts if one searches deep enough the frayed edges and fragile principles are revealed. Fanciful as it may seem, this is old news to many thinkers, however it may be to those who dabble very little in such obscure profundities. It is only through authority and tradition that we have become so confident in the use of language. After all, the exception of communication is debate and discussion of semantics because it is often seen as a trivial pursuit. When language is put under the microscope and examined the most toxic intellectual problem is then revealed, that there is no guarantee on language's validity.

It is a mistake to presuppose the soundness of the language system and all its consequences. Human language is a system of communication that was developed by ignorant entities. It is used to try and describe what we think we may know, yet not only do we make mistakes in using the tool, we don't have all the information to really understand how it all fits together.

Language is, at its fundamental level, a system that takes at least one thing, but usually a group of things, and gives it a sensory acceptable identifier. In this manner we are "saying" in symbol, sign, gesture, etc. that one thing is, in "fact", another thing. This is a contradiction. Regardless of what we say or think a thing is, it is absolutely itself and only itself in reality. We can’t ever truly know the reality of the thing because we are born ignorant and isolated from reality, so we learned to develop systems of thought that we felt accurately described that reality based on our experiences and the evidence we have suggesting that those approximations are probably true. Language is in essence taking something that is meaningless to us as it is and attributing qualities to it such that it becomes associated with complex concepts. In this way noise becomes speech, marks become symbols, movements become signs, etc. and so then we can communicate.