In breaking with Newtonian materialism we must accept that the objects of our theoretical models and the real entities of the external world bear a much more subtle relationship to each other than was assumed hitherto. Indeed, the very notion of what we mean by truth and reality must go into the melting pot.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, "real entities of the external world" are meanings construed of experience as being "the external world". In the case of humans, this involves non-meaning being construed as perceptual meanings, and perceptual meanings being reconstrued as the first-order language meanings (phenomena).
On the other hand, "objects of our theoretical models" are reconstruals of the first-order language meanings (phenomena) as the second-order language meanings (metaphenomena) that realise theories.
From this perspective of meaning as immanent, rather than transcendent, reality is meaning construed of experience, rather than something that transcends semiotic systems.
By the same token, truth is what is interpersonally assessed as valid within a given system of meaning-making.
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