The scope of knowledge is bounded by limitations of the language in which it is expressed in. Comprehension and expression of knowledge requires the use of a language as a medium to process and relay information. In daily life, both thoughts within a person's mind and ideas communicated to others are composed in a language, normally the mother tongue. Higher specificity, and hence precision, of a language is achieved through the creation of jargon. Utilizing this, new ideas can be generated and others examined in more detail, expanding the body of knowledge. But, through time, fields of knowledge have become so permeated with jargon that it has become incomprehensible to laymen. This paper will expound the argument that jargon is not only used to expand knowledge, but also to prescibe the formation and ordering of thoughts, influencing the syntesis of knowledge from it. Additionally, through the use of jargon the idea of the other could actively be constructed and a sense of identity(belonging) created. Practitioners of that jargon use this to recognize one another, similar to how language constructs a racial or national identity. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW KNOWLEDGE IS THE HEART OF POWER Power is the ability to manipulate one's surroundings to suit one's intentions. In a societal context, manipulating the actions and reactions of other people is essential to the pursuit of power. The ignorant is normally easier to manipulate than the learned. A person lacking sufficient knowledge to complete a task is forced to trust others to be of assistance. The trust becomes a vulnerability, for it can be used to influence his actions and responses. A defiency of knowledge also impairs the ability to adequately evaluate data, rendering the audience less capable of rejecting "information" that is presented to them. This implies that the supplier of information has the ability to manipulate the audience by prescribing "facts" that most in the audience accept. It can been seen that the party with more knowledge has certain advantages in the pursuit of power:- reduced vulnerability to being manipulated, increased capability to discern the reliability of facts (by evaluation), and increased opportunities to influence societal actions by either exploiting the trust of others or by dictating the "truth" to others.