Language is one from the fundamental features of any group of human beings. The group disagreements imply the understanding of language right in terms of conflicts, contradictions, and messes.
On the contrary, language is often described as a mean of the representation of reality and the meditation between human beings in groups for actions in reality. Furthermore, the language can emancipate from that function of representing and even communicating in fictions and literature or in linguistics. Therefor one can offer another viewpoint to the language, according to which the language should maintain an optimal degree of opacity rather than transparency. Thus the main function of language is to replace reality by an image of it, which should not correspond to reality exactly but more or less approximately and even fussy and foggy. Consequently, the main function of language is to create fictions and literature rather than representations. Furthermore, a very important, but only particular and borderline case is that of representing reality. However, this particular case should not serve for researching and defining the language as a whole.
Thesis:
That language able to generate fictions and literature assists any group to conserve itself right by means of its disagreements.
Main arguments “pro” the thesis:
Pro.1 The hypothesis of a single reality underlies the possibility for the language to be understood as an exact representation of reality. In fact, reality is combined from many fragments more or less consistent internally and rather inconsistent to each other. The even partial agreement even of a little part of them is too complicated and redundant puzzle, the resolving of which is one task, considerably exceeding the intellectual capabilities of any human being, even of a genius. Fortunately, the language has evolved in another way, “bracketing” the question about the exact representation of reality either single or plural.
Pro.2 Even if the hypothesis of one single reality is granted, any human being perceives and interprets it radically differently from anyone other. The consistency of perceptions ant interpretations might be achieved exceptionally difficultly by the scientific picture of reality. That picture is so sophisticated that no human being can understand it as a whole. Only a few genii can embrace even that tiny piece of it, which is contained in a single scientific theory or discipline. Nevertheless, the language has created tools relevant to the intellectual potential of an average human being for anyone to communicate and interact jointly and rather successfully.
Pro.3 The process of appearing of any meaning darkens gradually all contradictions both between different aspects of the meaning and between its interpretations by different human beings. Consequently, the sense of any meaning consists in the optimal proportion between its unclearness and exactness. Even more, the exactness of any meaning in a language is secondary. This is the little rest after removing all disagreements or contradictions both between different fragments of knowledge and between people’s interpretations.
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