https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/language-vs-human-intelligence-13441c78a733#.3tvphfakv

“Do words tell the truth about identities, relationships, unities and distinctions? No. Words, it turns out, are stranger and more momentous than we might ordinarily imagine. But it is not words that speak; persons speak. And it is when we pretend otherwise, presuming that, for example texts or strings of words can declare to us the nature of identity or relation that our human intelligence essentially begins attacking itself. And just about everything else, too. The seeming ‘powers’ of our representational inheritances are, in our modern situation, nearly entirely compromised.”