Language Does Not Determine What It's Possible to Know

Popper is again focusing on linguistic analysis because his contemporaries were and so he's responding to this other movement in philosophy. So when talking about the sources of knowledge and of ignorance, because so many others are focused on the fact that of both knowledge and ignorance come down in some way to our use of language. That your language nearly shapes the way in which you understand the world. The strong version says it determines it determines fully the way inWhich you can possibly understand the world - nonsense. It's bogus that if there's something you don't understand well we routinely invent words If there's a chemical out there in reality that has only just been discovered. We actually have conventions for inventing new