Standing n.b.: With rare exceptions, human/social phenomena are *continuous.* To treat them as discrete is merely a convenient shorthand.
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sure. I guess you could say (discretely), "a banana is not a crab." but crabness is still a fuzzy category.
I wonder if intelligences that didn't use words would be less prone to reification (and how that would even work)
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all fuzzy and flowy I guess. I'm sure you've seen some of this literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate … ?
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