For a physical calculator and a fact of arithmetic it produces/witnesses, it’s the abstract arithmetic that’s the relevant thing, rather than the physical calculator. An interpretation of data can be more important than the data, or than a causal process that produced the data.
For a physical calculator and a fact of arithmetic it produces/witnesses, it’s the abstract arithmetic that’s the relevant thing, rather than the physical calculator. An interpretation of data can be more important than the data, or than a causal process that produced the data.