Ursula K. Le Guin’s reflection begins by reminding us that words are ‘pale shadows of forgotten names,’ hinting at their inherent limitations. Words, she suggests, are mere representations, not the things themselves. This echoes Plato’s theory in the ‘Allegory of the Cave’ from *The Republic*, where the shadows on the wall represent only fragments of ultimate reality. Language, with all its expressiveness, often struggles to capture the fullness of the concepts it seeks to describe. [...]
