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> Anyway, I think you're implicitly privileging one abstraction, called an "interpretation" over "just the plain math".
One doesn't need to privilege one over the other to ask what the math is about.
> Why is an "interpretation" a real thing and not the equations?
Nobody thinks the math is not "a real thing." They want to know what the math is about.
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Like the things I mentioned. Please read more carefully.
> Anyway, I think you're implicitly privileging one abstraction, called an "interpretation" over "just the plain math".
One doesn't need to privilege one over the other to ask what the math is about.
> Why is an "interpretation" a real thing and not the equations?
Nobody thinks the math is not "a real thing." They want to know what the math is about.