Why is there any debate whatsoever about whether we can ever know something that is “extra-linguistic”? How could there be anything more commonsensical than the fact that the only categories we ever do any developed thinking in are linguisitic categories? There is no way for us to ever come to know anything outside of a linguistic framework because we think and know things in and through language. And why should this bother Christians? We believe that the world is constituted by the God who is identical with his Word. The idea that everything is linguistically mediated has its genesis not in modern philosophy of language, but in Christology.
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