body a single view about the way the world is; they provide a
&gt;representational framework for stating and locating views about the world.

Well, any thing that can be said can be said in English, of course, 
with long enough sentences (though most of science would be hard to 
do that way, not to mention engineering and business: ever tried to 
say an Excel spreadsheet in English?) but it seems impossibly naive 
to say that NL doesn't embody a world-view.  Of course every natural 
language does, in its ve