"The introduction of writing changes our perception of the world. The Logos, of which the Greeks speak, could not exist without writing. Interviewer: Why? Carlo Sini: For the simple reason that all writing has a medium that is outside the body of the speaker. Writing—unlike speech—presents us with objective knowledge that must be interpreted. When it is the voice that transmits knowledge, there is no separation or distance between what we say and the world that receives it and of which we are a part. In writing, on the other hand, we can recognize that objective root that will develop with science. It is a continuity. Without alphabetic and mathematical writing—which are forms of writing for everyone—we would not have had the universal and therefore science. The universal—which the Greeks called Logos—has determined the course of Western knowledge."