GRGR(16) non-verbal spaces

[Peter Petto]

Terrance F. Flaherty wrote about the interpreted sferics, "Die Welt ist
Alles Was der Fall ist":

>Facts, quality is besides the point, moral judgments are not
>part of the case, events are random, they simply occur, and
>their meaning exists only in their facts, in their actual
>occurrence. No ethics, no meaning.

I don't believe this to be a proper interpretation of Wittgenstein's thought.

I can't recall anything he wrote or said indicating that events are random. 
In his Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (which opens with "The world is all 
that is the case") he places meaning outside the world of facts -- beyond 
some scientific zero.

And I can't imagine him saying "No ethics, no meaning".

However, I believe that many have similarly misinterpreted the Tractatus. I 
don't know the taxonomy of philosophers, but I think they're called logical 
positivists.

I've often read that LW founded two opposing schools of philosophy, but I 
suspect he felt otherwise. I believe that he felt that most people 
misunderstood Tractatus, and his later work was a second attempt to explain 
what he was getting at.

Guy Davenport wrote a great little essay on LW in his (also very good) book 
Geography of the Imagination. I'll try to get a hold of that, if anyone's 
interested.