e anyone who thinks 
otherwise to actually try to read Peirce or Whitehead.); and as for 
linguistics, the conceptual distinctions it provides are actively 
harmful to any useful physical ontology. They are like sand in an 
engine. If you are using *linguistic* criteria to drive your 
upper-level classifying then it really is a complete waste of time to 
go on with this effort, in my view. I have better things to do. (BTW, 
if you really are serious about linguistics, then you ought to take 
linguistic data