JonA,
Your foray into deperplexology is interesting. You need more practice at it though.

The point I make with 2+2=4 is that it is immaterial how many apples there are, as long as there are some and as long as there are four pieces of fruit. If you wish to analyse the type of fruit in the basket and find that some of them (maybe the apples) contain three worms and two worms respectively, that would be interesting but would not change the number of fruit in the basket. The fact that the apples contain worms, pips and a stalk each, does not make the statement 2+2=4 incorrect.