To criticise language for being ‘ misleading’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to tilt at windmills, because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology.
To criticise language for being ‘ misleading’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to enthusiastically build windmills, because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology.