How can language reflect reality?

Language is an expression of reality. This whole "a representation of reality must reflect reality" meme needs to fucking die

>>340260
It does about as well as it can within the limitations of the human mind and body.

>>340260
Majoring in English will get you no job.

Language is reality. Our mind shapes all the data we receive in the form of an innate grammar and then it is expressed in the ways of your particular language and cosmovision.

Without a language (of any kind) there would be no reality for you, and what you call reality is a set of concepts and rules of your language.

>>340493
Asians are doing STEM cheaper and better

>>340511
>implying language isn't a barrier to direct experience of reality

stay c.ucked, continental

language acts as metaphor to make sense of the world that we see. also language acts as a horizon of understanding and thus creates a particular reality or ontic world.

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>>340260 (OP)#
abstractions are not meant to connect back to empirical data. abstractions are a sixth sense and are a reality, just like the touch is a reality [the reality of the touch]

but people attach themselves to abstractions far more than other senses, especially if they are told to do so and not told to do otherwise.

Meme magic is real

>>340260
define fucking "reflect" you fucking faggot