The Thoughts Of William Of Occam In Systemic Functional Linguistics [3]

Russell (1961: 464-5):

The object of sense and the object of understanding are the same, but the individual is the first object of sense. …  He goes on to say that abstract knowledge always presupposes knowledge which is 'intuitive' (i.e. of perception), and this is caused by individual things. … The question involved is whether, or how far, perception is the source of knowledge.

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Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, 'the object of sense' is a perceptual phenomenon (the range of a perceptual mental process), whereas 'the object of understanding' is a cognitive phenomenon (the range of a cognitive mental process).

Further, perceptual experience is construed as linguistic meaning, and it is linguistic meaning that is projected by cognitive  (and desiderative) mental processes.