our present order of knowledge is organized along a hierarchy of values within a specific materialist metaphysics. We might think of the sciences as disciplined forms of knowledge concerned with the behavior of matter or “objective” reality, with the number or mathematics as the privileged symbolic medium. We might think of the humanities as disciplined forms of knowledge concerned with the expressions of mental reality or “subjective” reality, with the text or narrative as the privileged symbolic medium. So, object and subject, number and narrative, mechanism and meaning.
