"More Philosophical than Scientific": Parsing a Rationalization

The apology published in the November issue of Applied Mathematics Letters, for withdrawing my accepted article "A Second Look at the Second Law" at the last minute, says it was withdrawn "not because of any errors or technical problems found by the reviewers or editors but because the Editor-in-Chief subsequently concluded that the content was more philosophical than mathematical." This might have been a valid reason for rejecting my article, since the level of mathematics is lower than in t...