What we see in the world around us depends in a large part on the principles we have encoded in our language. And the programme for encoding and decoding those symbols, for translating and calculating, is set up by the language which we possess. The brain too can only deal in symbols and never known the ‘real’ thing. Also that our language is ‘only ever serving as an approximation’ suggesting he does not trust the system of order that has been constructed as it has no hard evidence. The author argues that language is a limitation to our world and constructs our reality, giving those in powers, in this case men, the ability to manipulate our world in the favour of themself. The central contention of the essay is the question of who decided on the division, organization and classification of our language and the understanding of how this creation was accomplished.
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