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Um.. you can always observe the cat by opening the box, same as you can look up the stock value. Observing the cat doesn't change it's actual state. It only changes your knowledge of it. Same as value of a stock. No difference.
As for the definition, you hand picked 2 peices from that whole page. The first one when you read the example below doesn't even fit your case, so you left that out.
Then you had to do mental gymnastics to make the second one fit. But it was a legal definition. None of this is a legal document, so it doesn't matter. There is a reason that one is so low on the page.
But whatever. You want to consider stocks going down at any given second to mean you lost money in your head... fine. But when conversing with normal people, you will be hard pressed to find people who agree.
Words have meaning given context, I pointed to the definition that fit the context. When talking about wealth and assets, "money" means anything that could be easily converted to cash. I didn't copy the first because it wasn't relevant to the context.
I provided two to drive home the point.
How about an example. If I said, "how much money does Elon Musk have?", that would obviously include his stocks and whatnot because he probably only has a few million in actual cash, if that. If you ask how much money I have on the street, I'd assume you're talking about cash in my wallet, or maybe cash in my checking, and I wouldn't include my stocks or even savings balance.
Context matters a lot.
Are you saying that if I asked how much money you have in your retirement account, you'd say $0 because you only have stocks? If so, that's really weird.