"言不盡意"是言意關系在理論上的神秘化。在主客不分的道境中,"意"和"言"都是不存在的,因此并不存在可說不可說的問題。傳統思想對言意關系的理解,以樸素的反映論為基礎,認為思想是對世界的符合,語言是對思想的符合。從現代語言哲學的角度來看,思想是我們對世界的理解,而世界是在語言的層面上被理解的。意識和思想是語言的建構,而不是在語言之前已經存在的現成之物。"言不盡意"論暗示存在一種私有語言,但脫離公共語言規則的私有語言并不能產生意義。"言不盡意"在某種程度上說的是語言不能代替現實或不能代替我們對現實的感覺,但這種說法在哲學上是無意義的。

The preposition that meaning is not fully expressed by language is a mystification of the relationship between meaning and language. There is no consciousness and language in the undivided state of the subject and the object,and therefore there are no issues of the speakable and the unspeakable. The understanding of the relationship between language and meaning in traditional thought is based on the theory of simple reflection,holding that thought is the conformity to the world and the language is the conformity to thought. From the perspective of modern philosophy of language,thought is human’s understanding of the world,and the world is understood on the basis of language. Consciousness and thought are not something ready-made,but rather the construction of language. The view that meaning is not fully expressed by language implies that there is a private language,but such a language independent from common language has no meaning. This view that meaning is not fully expressed by language means in a sense language cannot substitute the reality or our perception of the reality,but it has no meaning in philosophy.