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The particular problem for the sciences, however, is that the knowledge of science is synony-
mous with the system pole (pole 1) of scientic language—and here there is none of the difference
between texts (perspectives) necessary for the work of imagination. This is because science is about
things (not people), and our formal scientic system makes room for just one causal explanation
(paradigm) at a time. For nonscience disciplines, the two poles of language are contiguous because
the systems of language in the arts and humanities and the social sciences are developed for thinking
about the thoughts of others. But in science, connectivity is severed between the language system
and the events pole. Th