{"product_id":"a-language-insufficiency-hypothesis-mapping-the-boundaries-of-linguistic-expression-9780971086944","title":"A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis: Mapping the Boundaries of Linguistic Expression","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bry Willis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Philosophics Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Philosophics Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Logic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Language Insufficiency Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Language Insufficiency Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e, Bry Willis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning. Against the widespread assumption that clearer definitions, better explanations, or more information inevitably improve understanding, this book argues the opposite: as conceptual complexity increases, communicative effectiveness declines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage performs reliably when anchored to concrete reference - objects, actions, shared environments. But as discourse moves toward abstraction, moral concepts, or subjective experience, shared meaning thins. Precision accumulates. Understanding stalls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on philosophy of language, epistemology, and cognitive theory, Willis maps where and why linguistic systems break down-not due to ambiguity, but due to misplaced confidence in what language can bear. The book challenges Enlightenment-era assumptions about rational clarity, objectivity, and the idea that meaning can always be stabilised through refinement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a manifesto for silence, nor a call to abandon language altogether. It is a diagnostic work: a cartography of breakdown. It clarifies the boundaries beyond which linguistic expression becomes unreliable, and why alternative modes-gesture, mathematics, art, ritual, or silence-sometimes succeed where words cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Language Insufficiency Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e is written for readers interested in philosophy of language, epistemology, communication, and the limits of rational explanation. It does not offer solutions. It offers a clearer view of the problem-and of the costs of continuing to pretend it has already been solved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philosophics Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595145691287,"sku":"9780971086944","price":1685.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780971086944.webp?v=1774988608","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-language-insufficiency-hypothesis-mapping-the-boundaries-of-linguistic-expression-9780971086944","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}