Whorfian underdetermination shows that the same conceptual reality can be lexicalized with radically different granularity across languages without implying distinct underlying meanings.

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Conceptual reality(as used in philosophy of mind and language): The actual ideas, categories, and things that exist in the world that our minds try to capture and organize.
Granularity(referring to how measurement itself has tiny, separate units): The quality of being made up of small, discrete particles or units rather than being completely smooth and continuous.
Lexicalized(in linguistics): Turned into an actual word in a language—if a concept is 'lexicalized,' the language has a specific word for it rather than having to describe it with a phrase.
Whorfian(as used in language philosophy): Related to Benjamin Lee Whorf's theory that the language you speak limits or shapes what you can think about—the idea that language creates barriers to understanding between speakers of different languages.

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