[MineOffedOvex]

Greetings daverupa:

The question assumes that Western philosophical categories are primary

That's your inferential assumption, not the questions (or mine). That's why each sentence begins with "If...."

This is centric thinking...."

Centric to what?

The Buddha taught from within in a wholly different milieu.

& there's absolutely no overlap...or enough overlap to matter, ever?

These categories are at best approximations, and not very useful apart from highlighting the utter lack of an ontology.

Lack of ontology where? Among the philosophers I listed?

Metta,
BuckyG