The Thoughts Of Berkeley In Systemic Functional Linguistics [7]

Russell (1961: 675):

For [Berkeley], there are only minds and ideas; the physical external world is abolished.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, minds, ideas and the physical external world are all construals of experience as meaning.

Mind is the construal of experience as

• the inner domain of a senser sensing (mental processes) and a sayer saying (verbal processes). 

Ideas are the construal of experience as

• the meanings that are projected by a senser sensing, and
• the meanings that are realised by the wordings projected by a sayer saying.

The physical external world is the construal of experience as

• the outer material domain of doings, happenings, and the relations between them.