This chapter focuses on various connections between the European consensus (EuC) concept and language. It argues, in particular, that scholars’ general perception of language and of using language heavily rests on the ‘Platonic’ assumption that there must always be something in common to all entities that we ordinarily subsume under the same generic name. The assumption is, however, misleading. As the chapter explains, things, properties or facts do usually not get their name on account of their essential characteristics, but on the basis of similarities and affinities that link them to other things, properties or facts bearing the same name. Accordingly, objects allegedly falling under the so-called EuC concept do not necessarily have any common element or essence justifying our practice to denote them by the same term and it is therefore futile to aim the investigation in this direction. The general criticism of the concept, including the so-called anti-majoritarian argument, must be rejected for the same reason.