Russell (1961: 533-4):
Hobbes, as might be expected, is an out-and-out nominalist. There is, he says, nothing universal but names, and without words we could not conceive any general ideas. Without language, there would be no truth or falsehood, for 'true' and 'false' are attributes of speech.
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In Systemic Functional Linguistics, ideas are the mental projections of language users, which may be verbally projected as locutions. Meanings of language such as 'true' and 'false' are both construals of experience (ideational) and enactments of social relations (interpersonal).
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