The Thoughts Of Hobbes In Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Russell (1961: 533):

[Hobbes] proclaims at the very beginning of the book [Leviathan], his thoroughgoing materialism.

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Systemic Functional Linguistics is theorised from a broadly materialist position.  Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 608-9):

… the human brain has evolved in the construction of a functioning model of “reality”.  We prefer to conceptualise “reality construction” in terms of construing experience.  This is not so much because it avoids metaphysical issues about the ultimate nature of reality — we are prepared to acknowledge a broadly materialist position;