GRGR(16) non-verbal spaces

[David Morris]

>From: 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.

Any insight into LW would be welcomed by me.

DM

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