It is highly true, that language is gained to a large extent through perception and it is also true that perceiving allows us to understand the discovered truths of the world. But, this can be misleading. For example, a powerful orator like Adolf Hitler could change the way a whole community was looked upon. Before Hitler arrived, Jews were merely other human beings, but, after his arrival, many a people started believing that Jews had tails and huge beards and that the Aryans were always blonde, lean and tall. Now that is surprising. This leads us to wonder that if language could play such a big havoc with our senses. How much can we trust them? Just listening to a person can change the truth? Then to what extent is it the truth.
Body language is important when it comes to first impressions and it is majorly perceived through our eyes. It is also said by most psychologists, that words may lie, but, body never does. This leads us to another confusion. Uninviting body or verbal language can create biases against a person. We may find that person undesirable every time after that even if we see positive responses. This leads us to believe that we trust our senses so much when it comes to understanding language, that thoughts once deciphered are rarely reviewed again. Thus, we find it difficult to accept new discoveries and move on.
On the contrary, we also have evidences that sometimes, language had very less effect. For example, even if I have been told that blue represents coldness and sadness repeatedly, I still believe that looking at a blue painting reminds me of gentleness and calmness. In the world of art, explaining what a particular painting, or a piece of music means never helps, because people defend more strongly on emotions here than on language.
Similarly, perceiving language in mathematics only gives us one result most of the times. It leads us to the truth usually without creating blindfolds or biases. Mathematics depends highly on reasoning and it is a universal truth that has been proved by so many people that two plus two will always give four and never five.
Whereas, in human and natural sciences, there is nothing more useful than language to understand things and nothing more disastrous than the ways language is perceived if done with biases. Alterations in language can cause us to change our perception within a second. This theory is highly depended upon by the marketing industry. Excellent marketing agents can make us realize that we absolutely cannot survive without their product. For example, most of the shampoo advertisements tell us about chemicals and proteins that we have never heard of. But, this just makes them better in our eyes.
This leads us to a very big question. How much can we trust language to provide the truth for us? Does it lead us closer to the truth? Or does it add to our biases and make us puppets? It is a universal truth that we learn because there is language. Without language, knowledge cannot be passed on in an efficient way. But, is this the true knowledge that we are looking for or are we just being blindfolded?
