It does suggest that these constitute only one form of language and that there are others on whose resources society can draw at this critical time. Yet its pervasiveness suggests a central and basic role in the underlying architecture of thought. Such a view has no place in the dominant objectivist picture of the world. Wheelright also argues that there is a release of semantic energy through the tensive fusion of terms. In this sense metaphoric utterance is a creative mode of knowledge.
Science aims at a precise, unambiguous, literal language.
There continues to be considerable faith in such literal language for good reason. A different approach is however possible. The central idea of this approach is that cognition is the result of mental construction. Knowledge of reality, whether it is occasioned by perception, language, memory, or anything else, is a result of going beyond the information given. The objective world is not directly accessible, but is constructed on the basis of the constraining influences of human knowledge and language.