 In other words, if we wish to arrive at an accurate statement of what our will is, we must be concerned not only with what we wish at some particular moment, but also with all of the other wants, purposes, associations and feelings that we and others have (or might have) given all of the knowledge available. The result is one’s “real” or the “general will”. Moreover, the dominant ideas characteristic of this real will provide a basis for shared understanding within the community and the state (see Sweet 2019). Some have argued that the possibility of such an understanding provides a basis not only for how language is a fundamental element in political community (see Grygienc 2018), but how it could be the “medium through which reality is given concrete shape” (Lejeune 2018).