Right. It's very much a philosophy.

And it's not really my fault that nobody can bring me negative apples. It's not like I made the rules! Sheesh! ;-)

You did! You posed the question!

I just don't see the value in conflating both terms (philos and math) when there's a distinction pointed out above.

No, I didn't make the rules. Reality is what reality is. They don't let me decide the rules for reality. That's probably for the best.

You can't bring me a bucket of negative apples. You can bring representations of future apples, or something like that. However, negative apples do not actually exist. In all these years, nobody has brought me a basket of negative apples.

I don't contest that. But you have a choice to frame your question in a way conducive to a valid answer. But someone who doesn't do that is likely unworthy of negative apples anyways. :)