That‘s quite a big leap, and sounds like a philosophical question. But many philosophers like late Wittgenstein or Heidegger disagreed with this idea. On more practical terms, maybe you‘ve experienced the following: You read a manual of a device on how to do something with it; but only actually using it for a few times gives you the intuition on how to use it _well_. Text is just very lossy, because not every aspect of the world, and factors in your personal use, are described. Many people rather watch YouTube videos for eg repairs. But those are very lossy as well - they don’t cover the edge cases usually. And there is often just no video on the repair you need to do.
BTW, have you ever tried ChatGPT for advice on home improvement? It sucks _hard_ sometimes, hallucinating advice that doesn’t make any sense. And making up tools that don’t exist. There‘s no real commonsense to be had from it. Because it’s all just pieces of text that fight with each other for being the next token.
When using Claude Code or codex to write Swift code, I need to be very careful to provide all the APIs that are relevant in context (or let it web search), or garbage will be the result. There is no real understanding of how Swift („the world“) works.