Suppose we imagine a world - perhaps this world at a different time - without any people in it, so that 'there is no language in that world' is true. What are our grounds for saying that this, or that anything at all, is true in this 'non-linguistic' world? Only that you and I, now, can agree about it - and can agree about what any such world would be like.
We cannot say that there might be some other world, that we cannot imagine or agree about, and yet that there is some definite thing that must be true about it. What kind of thing could a truth that no-one could ever agree about be?
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