You've said it, everyone knows this. You can't build a model out of an object and then say that said object is an instance of the model. The model is an useful

You've said it, everyone knows this. You can't build a model out of an object and then say that said object is an instance of the model. The model is an useful derived abstraction that sometines can serve for better understanding reality and making predictions (emphasis in sometimes), but it is not reality itself.