Nepal, May 30 -- Having completed revising academic materials for an examination, on a sunny day in 2014, I found myself bewildered by a question I had no method to answer: "What effect does our naming of objects and concepts have on their meaning?" Simply put, what if the real name of gravity is not gravity? Are we, as the human race, actively conceding an error by naming concepts and objects wrongly, affecting their meaning in the process.

If not through understanding, then perhaps via empathy, it can be deduced that it is not only I who is disturbed by their inability to tackle such a question out of sheer intuition. Times numerous, we, as individual entities of the human kind, find ourselves facing questions that transcend our materi...