projected reality:
a mental representation of reality, as construed by
the human mind, mediated by our unique perceptual and conceptual systems.
We stated above that the symbolic function of language serves to encode and
externalise our thoughts. We are now in a position to qualify this view. While our
conceptualisations
are seemingly unlimited in scope, language represents a
limited and indeed limiting system for the expression of thought; we’ve all
experienced the frustration of being unable to ‘put an idea into words’. There is,
after all, a finite number of words, with a delimited set of conventional meanings.
From this perspective then, language merely provides
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