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CAE writing assessment You see the following announcement on a website, Great Lives: Reviews wanted Send us a review of a book or film that focuses on somebody who has made an important contribution to society. Did you learn anything new about the person’s life from the book or film? Did the book or film help you understand why this person made their important contribution? Write your review. My answer Today i will review "Wittgenstein A Guide " by Luigi Pernisotto, professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice. In this books he wants to give an introduction to the tought of Wittgenstein and his contribute to the philosophy of mathematics and linguistics. The author wants to give his personal point of view at the beginning of the book : according to Pernisotto, it's wrong to say that in the Tractatus ,his second and most famous book, Wittgenstein radically changes his views on metaphysics. Infact the author wants to underline how the views of the austrian philosopher, mainly on the impossibility for natural language to fully describe nature opposed to the integrity of the mathematical signs, are coherent and consistent in all his production. The revolutionizing point of the author is that critics and philosophers had misunderstood the meaning of some of his lectures at Cambridge University, that may appear in contrast with the introduction of the Tractatus. He also wants to point out how the two italian editions of the Tractatus are not translated properly, and showing how the meaning of his most quotes are different between the original German and some translations in English and French. In the second part of the book it becomes clear how Wittgenstein changed the view on the philosophy of science and language : according to Pernisotto, without the Tractatus Popper would never stated the criteria of fallibility, a critic to empiricism that draws a clear border between science and pseudo-science and that is fundamental in the understanding of modern physics.
May 25, 2015 7:49 PM
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I hope it helps,

 

(The only point which seems like weird to me, is when you write "I will review" in future, but I have ignored it since it is completely possible for you to plan to review it after your description above)


Today I will review "Wittgenstein A Guide" by Luigi Pernisotto, professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice. In this book, he wants to give an introduction to the tought of Wittgenstein and his contribution to the philosophy of mathematics and linguistics.
The author wants to give his personal point of view at the beginning of the book. According to Pernisotto, it is incorrect to assert that in the Tractatus, his second and most famous book, Wittgenstein radically changes his views on metaphysics. In fact, the author wants to underline how the views of the austrian philosopher, mainly on the impossibility for natural language to fully describe nature opposed to the integrity of the mathematical signs, are coherent and consistent in all of his production.
The author's revolutionary argument is that critics and philosophers had misunderstood the meaning of some of his lectures at Cambridge University, that may appear in contrast with the introduction of the Tractatus. He also wants to allude to firstly how the two italian editions of the Tractatus have not been properly translated, while on the other hand, how the meaning of most quotes of his are different between the original German and some translations in English and French.
In the second part of the book, it becomes clearer how Wittgenstein changed the view on the philosophy of science and language. According to Pernisotto, without the Tractatus, Popper would never stated the criteria of fallibility, a critic of empiricism that draws an evident border between science and pseudo-science besides being fundamental in the understanding of modern physics.

May 26, 2015
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