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  • To What Extent Does Language Form The Basis For All The Other Ways of Knowing

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    Language forms the basis for many other ways of knowing. It allows for communication through speaking, writing, reading, and in Braille for blind people. Most of our knowledge is acquired through written language in books and materials that are translated into many languages to disseminate information more broadly. We rely heavily on written language to transmit and receive knowledge across generations because it preserves information over time better than oral traditions. The disappearance of ancient languages like Egyptian meant that the knowledge of those cultures was inaccessible for a long time, demonstrating our dependence on language for sharing understandings.

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    Language forms the basis for many other ways of knowing. It allows for communication through speaking, writing, reading, and in Braille for blind people. Most of our knowledge is acquired through written language in books and materials that are translated into many languages to disseminate information more broadly. We rely heavily on written language to transmit and receive knowledge across generations because it preserves information over time better than oral traditions. The disappearance of ancient languages like Egyptian meant that the knowledge of those cultures was inaccessible for a long time, demonstrating our dependence on language for sharing understandings.

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    To What Extent Does Language Form The Basis For All The Other Ways of Knowing

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    Seif Yasser
    Language forms the basis for many other ways of knowing. It allows for communication through speaking, writing, reading, and in Braille for blind people. Most of our knowledge is acquired through written language in books and materials that are translated into many languages to disseminate information more broadly. We rely heavily on written language to transmit and receive knowledge across generations because it preserves information over time better than oral traditions. The disappearance of ancient languages like Egyptian meant that the knowledge of those cultures was inaccessible for a long time, demonstrating our dependence on language for sharing understandings.

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    March 29, 2011

    WHAT EXTENT DOES LANGUAGE FORM THE


    BASIS FOR ALL THE OTHER WAYS OF
    KNOWING?

    Language can be viewed as the most basic mean of communication between


    humans. It can be either spoken then heard or written then read making it limited to
    the sensory ways of knowing which are the media of eyesight and ear sight. For
    blind people language can also be felt as they read in Braille. Language has
    numerous advantages. It can act as a tool for us to describe nearly everything in
    this universe. But as everything in this world it also has disadvantages. Language
    can be viewed as a convention of communication which people agree on, making
    the main problem the fact that a certain few people have the ability to change due
    to them seizing control of our main source of knowledge or in this case the medium
    through which we learn this agreed upon convention. Now this is where the problem
    emerges, when we try to communicate in several languages a communication
    breakdown might occur due to this difference. This breakdown can be a cause of
    misinterpretation which is dependent on perspective or understanding of this
    convention. Another problem might also arise which is the lack of words that
    represent some objects found in a culture which doesnt use the language. This
    problem can be found in language like Arabic where new inventions carry foreign
    names that have no Arabic counterpart so this problem is solved by Arabization,
    which is basically conserving the root of the word and modifying it so it complies
    with the phonetic and grammatical rules of the language.
    All of this might seem off topic but the fact is that what is mentioned above
    determines the extent of the dependence of our knowledge on language. If we see
    how we learn we will realize that most of the knowledge we acquire is written in
    books written in several languages then translated into many other languages in
    order to make this knowledge available to more and more people. The reason why
    we depend so much on written knowledge goes back to the fact that it makes it
    harder to lose with time. Another reason why we depend so much on language to
    carry out the task of transmitting and receiving knowledge is the fact that the
    reached conclusions or observation are made using the agreed on convention
    making it understandable by generations to come. A good example would be the
    ancient Egyptian language which vanished with time making it impossible until
    recently to decode the secrets and knowledge of the ancient Egyptians which
    proves how dependent we are on language when it comes to exchanging
    knowledge.

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    Seif Allah Yasser


    11E

    ToK

    March 29, 2011

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