We need to have an objective - true - understanding of things in order to communicate with each other. Having individual ‘truths’, or having our own interpretation of the world labelled as ‘truth’, we run the risk of no-one being able to truly communicate with each other because there is no similar understanding of concepts and information. For example, check out this:
“While information systems are generally good at connecting incompatible systems by using or translating protocols and formats, they often fail when it comes to interpreting the meaning of specific information [22]. If the semantic content of some information does not comply with the formal ontological structure of the information system, it is not usable or interpretable by the system. The problem is one of meaning, and it is compounded by the fact that any or all of the meanings of a particular entity or phenomenon may be used by different people at different times. Smith [4] calls this the Tower of Babel Problem: different groups, including data- and knowledge-base system designers, have their own terms and concepts for understanding and building representative frameworks. Identical labels may have entirely different meanings; or the same meaning may have different labels. Information systems using different ontological classifications aren’t able to communicate easily without additional layers of metadata that allow them to map one ontology to another.”
Taken from ibid two articles ago Saab and Fonseca. Pg 3.
