This theory later leads on to Nietzsche's concept of the Ubermensch. ... Nietzsche accuses language of making us believe in simple oppositions, when in reality there is only "degrees and many subtleties of variation". For Nietzsche, language does not neutrally reflect the world, nor does thought in some way transcend language. Rather, language fixes and determines the way in which we perceive. ... Immediate certainties are mainly associated with Descartes" foundationalist theories, most importantly the famous Cogito argument. ...

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Descartes was in favor of this theory. ... The use of language varies greatly throughout the globe and the spectrum of words for describing that which we see empirically is vast. This results in our cultures to become very imaginative with language and, depending on country or race, we end up using an extremely different range of vocabulary. This post modernist idea comes from Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist who gave leave to much advancement in the field of language and understanding. ... Aside from the complex idea of language existing, there is the idea of science. ...

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According to Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Om is in the pre-operational stage; he can represent things with words but lacks logical reasoning and understand pretend play and exhibits egocentrism and language development. ... Egocentrism in Piaget's theory is the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view (Myer 146).Om exhibits this because he is only able to think of the amount of M&M's in his hand but is unable to realize that I has the same number of pennies since she gave him one M&M for each penny (Myer 146). ... In Piaget&#...

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