With the Hermeneutic Paradigm, we reach a point in our development at which we begin to appreciate the role that consciousness plays in understanding experience. The "natural standpoint" of the Symbolic World-View had simply assumed that the different contents of experience—whether from perception or memory or imagination—were all of the same ontological status. That is, dreams and imaginations were as "real" as conscious perception. And the slightly more mature Naive Realism of the early Natural World-View—which in the hands of the Greek Philosophers had produced a fairly sophisticated mathematical science—still assumed that perception gave us an accurate "view" of "reality". With the advance of science, however, we began to realize that there is more to the world than what we experience, and in fact experience itself is a fabrication of our brains, even if the fabrication does involve information about what "exists". Emerging upon the heels of this realization, the Hermeneutic Paradigm is our way of acknowledging that we need to understand how Conscious Experience comes about, and how it functions, before we can even hope to understand "reality".
Whereas the Symbolic and Natural World-Views had their own distinct form of grammar—Mythos and Logos, respectively—the language of the new paradigm (which we take to be a form of the New Rhetoric) begins with a simple combination of Mythos and Logos, allowing (if not in fact demanding) the use of both figurative and literal forms. This version of the New Rhetoric takes yet another step towards the rigorization of the logical components—Metonymy and Analogy for Mythos, Causality and Analogy for Logos—by replacing Causality and Analogy with Contiguity and Isomorphism, just as earlier (in the transition from the Symbolic World-View to the Natural World-View), scientific Causality and Analogy displaced magical Metonymy and Analogy. The result is that, with the Hermeneutic Paradigm, we deal directly with Contiguity—the logical basis of both Metonymy and Causality; and with Isomorphism—the logical basis of Analogy; and these two logical relations are presumed to be the warp the and woof—the very fabric—of all Human Understanding.
With this hermeneutic rigor we gain a symbolic power that allows for, among other things, the introduction of the notion of a system as a replacement for the previous paradigm of natural things. And in Systemics we assume that what exists (Onticity) are systems within systems within systems. Accordingly, with the Hermeneutic Paradigm we see that "Reality" is a fabrication of the brain derived from the brain's interaction with Onticity, and that the Objects of Reality in our experience are abstracted from the systems of Onticity.