Lexical category trap

Self-reflective Embodiment of Transdisciplinary Integration (SETI) (Part #5)

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An articulation such as that of the previous section readily reinforces assumptions regarding the universal significance of lexical categories. As highlighted by Benjamin Lee Whorf (Language, Thought, and Reality, edited by John B Carroll, 1956), different human languages may have different lexical categories -- variously using noun, verb, adjective, adverb and the like (Review of Frameworks for the Representation of alternative Conceptual Orderings as Determined by Linguistic and Cultural Contexts, 1986). It is therefore problematic to assume that the "dimensions" of the previous section carry the full meaning associated with them in a mature culture when they are neatly treated as English nouns.

As argued from the perspective of process reality and flow psychology, fuller meanings may be associated with understanding them as verbs implying an inherent dynamic. In this sense the "definitions" are not as it might be convenient for them to be assumed to be in exemplifying maturity. Are there "other" lexical categories?