Saturday 13 August 2016

The Thoughts Of Russell Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Russell (1961: 776-7):
Such illustrations suggests objectivity in truth and falsehood: what is true (or false) is a state of the organism, but it is true (or false), in general, in virtue of occurrence outside the organism.  Sometimes experimental tests are possible to determine truth and falsehood, but sometimes they are not; when they are not, the alternative nevertheless remains, and is significant.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, Russell's 'state of the organism' corresponds to the mental (or verbal) projection of a proposition, and 'occurrences outside the organism' correspond to experience construed prototypically, but not exclusively, as material processes.

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