https://elisafreschi.com These pages are a sort of virtual desktop of Elisa Freschi. You can find here my cv and some random thoughts on Sanskrit (and) Philosophy. All criticism welcome! Contributions are also welcome! Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:52:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://elisafreschi.com/2015/01/29/are-we-sure-we-are-appealing-to-common-sense-and-not-just-to-english-common-sense/ https://elisafreschi.com/2015/01/29/are-we-sure-we-are-appealing-to-common-sense-and-not-just-to-english-common-sense/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:01:16 +0000 elisa freschi http://elisafreschi.com/?p=1368 How much of our philosophical ideas are in fact conditioned by the language we use?
You can read, for instance, these critical comments on the Ten Commandments and their form in Hebrew. One way to avoid the risk of mistaking the appeal to one’s intuition with the appeal to one’s working language, is to test one’s ideas within different cultural milieus (see, in this regard, this post).
On a related vein, you might want to check this and similar posts by Gabriele Contessa on the need for Analytic Philosophy to welcome more scholars not having English as their mother tongue.

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