Friday, 22 July 2016

The Thoughts Of Locke In Systemic Functional Linguistics [7]

Russell (1961: 685):
Locke had accustomed the world to the idea that the secondary qualities — colours, sounds, smells, etc. — are subjective, and do not belong to the object as it is in itself.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, all qualities and objects — whether perceptual or cognitive — are intersubjective construals of experience as meaning.

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