Language is just the medium we use to communicate,
right? Well, yes, but language is not as passive as we have come
to assume. In fact, language is a paradigm generator—guiding
us toward a particular world view, an epistemological framework—determining
what and how we can learn and know our world, and ontological
map—it proscribes what we see as meaningful and significant
to pursue as humans. In short it is constantly—completely
out of our awareness—creating and perpetuating our reality.
This paper will hypothesize that the development of different
language forms or types can enable an increased intelligence—particularly
in terms of understanding different perspectives on reality and
that this in fact probably constitutes an epistemologically technology
for shifting how we know what we know and how we learn. Even
though it will not be explored in this paper, there is a natural
extension of this hypothesis, which is that insistence on one
particular type of language—refereed to here as objective
functional language— used in the business, scholarly, and
societal communication is actually limiting our ability to understand
and come to terms with complex problems that require alternate
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