Russell (1961: 550-1):
In two other respects the philosophy of Descartes was important. First: it brought to completion, or very nearly to completion, the dualism of mind and matter which began with Plato and was developed, largely for religious reasons, by Christian philosophy. … the Cartesian system presents two parallel but independent worlds, that of mind and that of matter, each of which can be studied without reference to the other.
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The experiential grammatics of Systemic Functional Linguistics distinguishes an 'inner' domain of mental processes from an 'outer' domain of material processes. It is the inner domain that projects meaning, the semiotic order of experience, into "existence".
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