Philosophy of language – On words, meanings and languages
The most important language is the symbolic language of nature. It is the language which speaks not in words, but in examples. All languages develop in coherence and in conjunction with this symbolic language of nature.
The neural mechanisms explain how we comprehend a language when there is multisensoryintegration in wernicke’s area of the brain. This part of the brain located in left posterio-superior temporal lobe recieves fibres from the visual cortex of occipital lobe, sensory and tactile fibres from the parietal lobe and auditory fibres from the temporal lobe.
Those who cannot see since birth can still learn spoken language. Those who cannot listen since birth cannot speak but can learn the speech(lip) reading and sign language. Those who are deaf blind can learn Braille language.
Logically speaking, one or more mode of sensation is necessary to learn a language. Nature provides all the predicates of a language. We cannot understand meanings of many words without nature around.
Most importantly, we can presume and contruct the meanings in the mind alone but presuming is not same as being.