Why Words Matter
7 min readNov 15, 2019
Words can open up our minds or close them down
Ever since Ferdinand de Saussure began prodding the concept of language with an intellectual stick towards the end of the nineteenth century, there’s been a debate over the interplay between thought and word.
Anyone who’s ever meditated deeply becomes aware of the fact that our brains seem to form concepts and moments later these are transmuted into words. But…