No, I didn't make the rules. Reality is what reality is. They don't let me decide the rules for reality. That's probably for the best.
You can't bring me a bucket of negative apples. You can bring representations of future apples, or something like that. However, negative apples do not actually exist. In all these years, nobody has brought me a basket of negative apples.
I don't contest that. But you have a choice to frame your question in a way conducive to a valid answer. But someone who doesn't do that is likely unworthy of negative apples anyways. :)
I just don't see the value in conflating both terms (philos and math) when there's a distinction pointed out above.