The Thoughts Of Kant Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [6]

Russell (1961: 680):

[For Kant] Space and time are subjective, they are part of our apparatus of perception.  But just because of this, we can be sure that whatever we experience will exhibit the characteristics dealt with by geometry and the science of time. … since you always wear spatial spectacles in your mind, you are sure of always seeing everything in space.  Thus geometry is a priori in the sense that it must be true of everything experienced, but we have no reason to suppose that anything analogous is true of things in themselves, which we do not experience.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional theory, space and time (and things in space-time) are construals of experience as meaning, and meaning is intersubjective, rather than merely subjective, because language is a social semiotic system.  The ontogenesis of meaning potential in each individual involves the social interaction of individuals.