GRGR(16) non-verbal spaces

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 All true. - KFL (interested in that Davenport stuff) 

Peter Petto schrieb:
> 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.
>