The Importance of Words in Language

Even in the most rudimentary perceptions, such as those had by small children, there is what he calls a latent seed of language which cannot be communicated. Full-blown cognition though is always linguistic, so that our knowledge is permeated by words. Bhatsuhari: The universal is indeed what we really mean by sfota. We apply the word giraffe to every giraffe because they all resemble one another in the relevant way while differing in other respects.