Objectivism Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Edelman (1992: 152):

The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories. (It is true, however, that some "natural objects" appear to follow these categories because of the interactive features of our phenotype and the physical properties of these objects.) … Physics, which studies such a world, describes its formal correlative properties but does not contain a theory of unique categories for the partitioning of macroscopic objects. As I point out in the Postscript, objectivism fails.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, 'the world of categories' is the world of meaning construed of experience.  'Natural objects' and their physical properties are construals of experience as material order meaning (phenomena).  Physics involves reconstruing the material order meanings of language as the meanings of the language of theory.  Objectivism fails because meaning is immanent within semiotic systems, not transcendent of them.