Indeed. The power of language in shaping our perception of the world is the subject of much of twentieth century philosophy [1]. For an analogy for this crowd

Indeed. The power of language in shaping our perception of the world is the subject of much of twentieth century philosophy [1]. For an analogy for this crowd though: All programming languages are Turing complete. Any algorithm can be expressed in any of them. Would you thus conclude that your choice of programming language does not limit you? Especially when it comes to working in a large team on a complex project? (and there are no larger and more complex projects than human society) An analogous concept would be Dennetts intuition pumps [2]. An answer that is more idiomatic and more easily expressed will present itself more rapidly. It will be communicated to your teammates more efficiently, and it might win out due to its linguistic superiority rather than its inherent superiority or correctness. Thus it quite literally shapes my world. None of this requires me to suppose that thoughts outside of language can not be expressed or that I can not extend and develop language to better express my thoughts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump