language

The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.

~Lakoff & Johnson

From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”

Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in