The notion of the non-elementalistic is important—that was the basis of structuralism—but it reinforces the old view that these operationalizations of our observations were unfortunate but necessary concessions to the limitations of observation, rather than that, e.g., space-time really is the lattice the Universe is laid upon. I doubt there’s a real difference between these views mathematically, but I think there is conceptually.
The notion of the non-elementalistic is important—that was the basis of structuralism—but it reinforces the old view that these operationalizations of our observations were unfortunate but necessary concessions to the limitations of observation, rather than that, e.g., space-time really is the lattice the Universe is laid upon. I doubt there’s a real difference between these views mathematically, but I think there is conceptually.