We disagree at the very core. I see mathematics as the root of all things, including philosophy, I don't even understand how anything else has any possible meaning. Perhaps you mean in the most traditional sense. I do love knowledge, experience, and sharing. but to think their mediums are anything untranslatable? I think not.Yet, math cannot exist without an awareness to observe it.
Math can provide a lot of interesting insights into the nature of things, but it cannot give us any truths regarding more profound things like the nature of existence itself. It may be a brilliant tool for the empirical, but is quite limited in deep philosophy.
I do understand why you call math abstract. It is easier to see the flashlight as a flashlight and not layer after layer of numbers, but it is both. Whether they are found in a rememberance(so to speak) or in the actual world.
What is deeper philosophy, that makes it impenetrable to math? I suppose an easier question would be, what do you think the root of awareness is?
More specifically and direct to your point; Awareness is inescapably number. (Monadologie, Gottfried Leibniz) The conscious(and the unconscious), the animal, the crystal, water, carbon, light, darkness, all of it, have underlying awareness which is founded firstly as a function (if x:if y; then z). New interactions demand new responses so Secondly, they are all then shaped out of the eternal laws of the universal state of affairs, which I would call a confirming element. Simply, "first" awareness is reprogrammable by nature. Finally, this underlying awareness reaches a point where it decides its own programming mechanisms(at least in the temporary) As for what happens after an awareness (dies) or leaves its (container), I do not know, but death happens literally and symbolically. The core of the conscious is a self-defining symbol which consumes other symbols, both in whole and part, that it uses to transform itself. Each follow will to power very carefully.
I am not sure what the symbol at completion would look like, but there are many images of its transformations. But directly, I would say we are at the (zone) where light has reflected back upon itself and is stretching and pulling itself apart. (Hence, will to power as a universal "empirical" truth, is only a tool to produce something with power, to further dissect light so it is not pure truth, but a cross-section of it. Just like other observable truths.)
I don't know, this is far from a thorough breakdown, but I am interested to hear of a structured philosophy without numbers at its core. But for me, deeper philosophy invokes irrevocably a complete understanding of numbers.