Russell (1961: 549):
'I understand by the sole power of judgement, which resides in my mind, what I thought I saw with my eyes.' Knowledge by the senses is confused, and shared with animals … . Knowledge of external things must be by the mind, not by the senses.
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In Systemic Functional Linguistics, visual experience — the impact of photons on the retina — is construed as the ideational meaning of the system of language. Other animals construe visual experience as the meanings of their systems of protolanguage.
In Systemic Functional Linguistics, knowledge is meaning. Meaning is projected into semiotic existence by the cognitive or desiderative mental processing of a Senser. Wording that realises meaning is projected into semiotic existence by the verbal processing of a Sayer.
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