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Language is just the medium we use to communicate, right? Well, yes, but language is not as passive as we have come to assume. In fact, language is a paradigm generator—guiding us toward a particular world view, an epistemological framework—determining what and how we can learn and know our world, and ontological map—it proscribes what we see as meaningful and significant to pursue as humans. In short it is constantly—completely out of our awareness—creating and perpetuating our reality.

This paper will hypothesize that the development of different language forms or types can enable an increased intelligence—particularly in terms of understanding different perspectives on reality and that this in fact probably constitutes an epistemologically technology for shifting how we know what we know and how we learn. Even though it will not be explored in this paper, there is a natural extension of this hypothesis, which is that insistence on one particular type of language—refereed to here as objective functional language— used in the business, scholarly, and societal communication is actually limiting our ability to understand and come to terms with complex problems that require alternate views or interpretations. 30 pgs

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