The "Reality" Of Space And Time Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1989: xviii):

From Plato to Kant and up to date philosophers have mused on the nature of space and time.  Admittedly this is a lesser puzzle than the puzzle of reality, or the origin of everything … .  But are space and time any more real than atoms and electrons?  Or are they just artefacts of our perceptions?

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the nature of space and time, the origin of everything, atoms, electrons and reality are construals of experience as meaning.  It is in this sense that they are, in the first instance, "artefacts" of our perceptions.

The word just in just artefacts of our perceptions realises the interpersonal meaning of 'counter-expectancy: limiting', and thus asserts that space and time being 'artefacts of our perceptions' is not only contrary to expectation, but also limiting in some way.  The validity of such propositions needs to be argued.