A picture is worth a thousand words, therefore reality is worth an infinite number of words?

Question

Do you agree with this concept?

Answer 1

Words are only significant to what we can label to them.

Answer 2

Reality is limited by the words that we have to describe it.

As language has a fixed number of words, there is not a infinite number of words.

Answer 3

Words can never contain reality fully. They are only approximations for convenience's sake.

Answer 4

If trying to describe it in words will relieve human suffering, then of course.

Answer 5

Words come to be used for the subjective description in a picture. Many people can have many perceptions of one picture. Many views that can be expressed in their own individual sentences of words, a thousand words even.

Step back, away from the anthropocentric view that there are multiple realities. Accept that there is only one true objective reality; one that is completely detached from the multiple perceptions of the observer/s.

Objectivity is about simplicity. It is about simple theories, or descriptions that describe the world in its truest form. So why should reality be described in an infinitely more number of words than this picture?

P.S. Language is a compendium of sounds that are recognisable by others to which the sounds have meaning. You cannot say that language is finite. New words get scribed into the Oxford English Dictionary every year. Language is far from static and finite.