Exactly, Scott, can we use these lines verbatim in our methodology section:
“By saying we can’t know each other except by assigning numbers we fail in the business of humanness–and I wonder if this might be your objection to the quantitative method? That it doesn’t reveal any essential qualities of life yet claims to be a way of “knowing” that’s so artificial as to be irrelevant?

How can we say we can be detached and connected at the same time? ”

Beautifully put