[throwawaymath]

I'm having difficulty following what you're saying here. I think you're saying mathematical models are only an (imperfect) interpretetion of reality, which sounds fine.

But then you're talking about "sectarian bullshit" and "neo-platonic bullshit". And at the same time, you called the stock market a "partially observable stochastic process" - why do you have an issue with calling something in reality a set of random variables, but you don't have an issue with calling it a stochastic process? Those are the same thing.

Honestly it feels like you launched into a tirade over a perfectly innocent and fine choice of words. I don't think the commenter you responded to meant to push some kind of weird philosophical agenda.