Wittgenstein’s thought is divided into early and late. There was a radical break between them. The early Wittgenstein, extending Russell’s original ideas (which I summarized here), said that statements, unless they are of logic or maths, are meaningless unless they refer to facts! The thing about ‘facts’ is that they are verifiable entities or happenings in sensed reality; they can be proved true or false. The important thing is verifiability. Their…