We fall for it because although language is a powerful tool, it's incredibly bad at conveying nuance, context, and describing phenomenons present in nature. Poe

We fall for it because although language is a powerful tool, it's incredibly bad at conveying nuance, context, and describing phenomenons present in nature. Poetry comes close, but still doesn't hit the spot, and leaves out so much detail, no matter how well written or verbose in its descriptions. Our own mind has to fill in the blanks of a well written description. Language also can't express the ineffable or the divine. It can hint at it, but it won't transmit the phenomenon correctly into another mind.