imagine a species with brains so big they never bothered developing the concept of categories.
they have no word for “chair” as an abstract concept, only words for each individual chair they have ever encountered.
where we visualise simplistic venn diagrams, they see the entire scatterplot.
what would we make of them and what would they make of us, I wonder.
technically they could still have a word for chair, but it would unpack to a precise definition or set of specified references, so they would be physically incapable of having arguments over terminology.
Obviously an engineered species. No naturally evolved species could afford that level of power consumption.