Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 90 of 171
Language underlies social reality
The most important fact, which Searle says that almost all of social science and philosophy going back to Aristotle take for granted, is language. It is only by assuming language that you can develop social contracts or analyze how controlling linguistic categories grants power in a society. What about the existence of language itself? How does it arise and why does it arise? How does it function at an even more basic level than social contracts and power relationships? These are complex questions that are beyond the scope of this book.