Russell (1961: 399):
John's greatest work was called (in Greek) On the Division of Nature. This book was what, in scholastic times, would have been called 'realist'; that is to say, it maintained, with Plato, that universals are anterior to particulars.
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In Chomskyan Formal Linguistics, Universal Grammar is anterior to Performance. In scholastic times, Formal Linguistics would have been called 'realist'.
In Systemic Functional Linguistics, the system of potential and the textual instance are different perspectives on the same phenomenon.
In Systemic Functional Linguistics, the system of potential and the textual instance are different perspectives on the same phenomenon.
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