Russell (1961: 353):
But the gist of the solution he [Augustine] suggests is that time is subjective: time is in the human mind, which expects, considers, and remembers. It follows that there can be no time without a created being, and to speak of time before the Creation is meaningless. … The theory that time is only an aspect of our thoughts is one of the most extreme forms of that subjectivism which, as we have seen, gradually increased in antiquity from the time of Protagoras and Socrates onwards.
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In Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, time is a construal of experience as ideational meaning. This is not to deny the experience that is construed as meaning; but the experience is not 'time' until it is construed as meaning by language. On the question of subjectivity, Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory construes meaning as intersubjective, the joint construction of social beings.
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