In the strictest sense, adding anything except abstract numbers is a category error.
My point has less to do with the map not correlating to the territory, as that the map is not necessarily as intuitive, as a map, as we might expect; arithmetic may be a lot more tightly correlated to a distinctly human way of perceiving the world than naive expectation would lead to be the case.
In the strictest sense, adding anything except abstract numbers is a category error.
My point has less to do with the map not correlating to the territory, as that the map is not necessarily as intuitive, as a map, as we might expect; arithmetic may be a lot more tightly correlated to a distinctly human way of perceiving the world than naive expectation would lead to be the case.