I very much disagree - what do you consider philosophy, for instance? I'm a bit of a fan of the history of philosophy, and I've very happily read translations o

I very much disagree - what do you consider philosophy, for instance? I'm a bit of a fan of the history of philosophy, and I've very happily read translations of Plato, Aristotle, Schelling, Feuerbach, and Marx - the only one I've had difficulty with is Hegel. The terminology chonen by the translator to reflect the author's intention is often strange, but it's no different to, say, reading Homer in translation. Personally, I've found that philosophic words and their meanings don't change too much - and there are good arguments with formalism vs anti-formalism to the point where I think that mathematical and formal logic methods may not reflect the insight of some of this "older" philosophy as a whole. That is to say - the fact of being "completely inscrutable" can be something of an advantage if meaning is what you're seeking.