Language as the key

Am learning a new way of looking at reasoning and language.  Have always learnt and taught that language follows the process of reasoning.  That after the mind or the brain has done with the process of abstraction and reasoning does language chip in to label the concept or the notion the mind has now conceived.  Even to the describe the process of what and how the concept was arrived at, language helps.  However, a slightly different perspective is to see language as more than the end process or a labelling tool.  Language can be viewed as the one that actually collaborates with the process of reasoning.  It actually creates reality (not the physical one).  Without language one does not make any sensible headway in the process of reasoning.

This view of language is propagated by Charles Taylor in his latest volume The Language Animal.  Given that I'll be spending most of the coming two years (atleast) dabbling with this theme and the thoughts of Taylor, I feel a sort of contentment at having to work on a topic that always has been close to my heart:  meaning and religion.  My basic premise is that if language is constitutive of reasoning (or even the other way round), then so is belief.  The initial steps would be to see the divide between reasoning and belief - whether at all there is such a divide.  Or is it something that has been projected and debated while the underlying processes and core principles have always been the same?  Hope the endeavour to make sense of the meaning-making process helps me see myself and everything else in a better light.