The Thoughts Of Russell On James Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Russell (1960: 767):

It will be seen that this doctrine [of James] abolishes the distinction between mind and matter, if regarded as a distinction between two different kinds of what James calls 'stuff'.

Blogger Comment:

James does not abolish the distinction between mind and matter; he merely claims it is derivative from experience, rather than 'primal' or 'fundamental'.  As James says, experience 'furnishes the material to our later reflection'.

From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, mind and matter are construals of experience as the domains of mental and material processes; that is, of sensing on the one hand, and of doing–&–happening on the other.