And he uses it. Instead of teaching circus tricks to the animals, he names them. It is through the medium of speech that Adam's mind, recognizing the predications of the beasts, can identify their essence. His nouns and predicates give voice to formal perceptions, so that the very structure and composition of his mind assumes the distinguishing contours of reality. The voice is the instrument of vision.
Word is the expression of truth.
Still, even as we defend human discourse against those who reduce it to a circus act, we believers are not, at the end, mere philosophers. Our deeper bounden duty is, rather, to the One called Alpha and Omega, the taproot of language and its final intent. The Fellowship of St. James. All rights reserved.