We could have called the wheel fire, and we could have called the fire wheel. It shows both the importance of words and their whimsy.
But what we call them now evokes in our minds this enormous system of connections of things to words and words to things.
Words aren’t absolutes; words are how they perform.
Learning a second language gives you the understanding that the connection between objects and their names is arbitrary.
“Understanding that reality and the symbolic system used to denote it are not one and the same leads to more developed metalinguistic skills that lay the foundation for even more advanced metacognitive processes and higher-order reasoning”