Language Use and Nature: Foundation of the Philosophy of Science

In this essay, I will discussed how our language use is the key to our philosophy of science. I argue that, our study of language reflects our study of nature. The reason is, as language can be reduced to logical proposition, we can explore the ontological structure of nature with language, as logic and ontology mirror each other. I argue also, as nature is presented to us via sense perceptions rather passive – it does not tell us much, until we started to ask questions and find answers to the questions. For example, Newton saw an apple fell to the ground. Laymen may take such observation for granted, but Newton asked, why the apple fell and he reasoned through it to conclude that mass contains gravitational force. Therefore, due to the fluidity of language and our own creative will, we ask questions in order to understand nature. The reason such phenomena is possible is that, logic is fluid with language, which makes, the order of ontology we understand of nature is fluid too.