The Thoughts Of Hume In Systemic Functional Linguistics [11]

Russell (1961: 645):

'Carelessness and inattention alone can afford us any remedy [for sceptical doubt both with respect to reason and the senses].  For this reason I rely entirely upon them; and take it for granted, whatever may be reader's opinion at this present moment, that an hour hence he will be persuaded that there is both an external and internal world.'

Blogger Comment:

From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, as meaners, we construe experience as both external and internal, with

• the external as the domain of doing-&-happening, 
• the internal as the domain of sensing and saying, and 
• both the external and internal as the domain of being-&-having.