Thursday 16 June 2016

The Thoughts Of Berkeley In Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Russell (1961: 623):
George Berkeley (1685-1753) is important in philosophy through his denial of the existence of matter — a denial which he supported by a number of ingenious arguments.  He maintained that material objects only exist through being perceived.

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Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, the perception of a material object is the construal of experience as meaning.  That is, the impact of photons on the retina, for example, is mentally assigned a semiotic value such as 'material object'.  It is the construal of this experience as this meaning that ceases when perception ceases.

human
construes
experience
as
meaning
Assigner
Process: relational: identifying: intensive
Token

Value

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