When one has fully internalized the view that language, mainly written and spoken language, provides an environment which if not causes then maintains conscious understanding and awareness, then one realizes that everything we consciously experience is shaped and molded, is structured, by language.
We cannot conceive of a world without language, if for no other reason than that the very ability to conceive, to employ conceptual thought, is maintained by language. One of the implications of this view is that if we change the language we use then we will change the way we perceive and apprehend reality. Thus reality as we know it will, in a sense, shift and change with our shifts and changes of language.
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