Are you confusing Wittgenstein with Russell? Tractatus is basically the opposite of "windmill tilting", it concludes that the vast majority of philosophical "p

Are you confusing Wittgenstein with Russell? Tractatus is basically the opposite of "windmill tilting", it concludes that the vast majority of philosophical "problems" end up being essentially "windmills" in the context of that expression, and that what remains is trivially solvable and not particularly interesting. Wittgenstein, during his lifetime and after, was often confused for logical positivist, that is all that matters is logically provable statements. But it's quite clear from his further writings (and a thoughtful reading of the Tractatus) that what is being said is: if you're limiting your discussion to logical statements (i.e. philosophy has he understood it at that point) then what you can talk about is limited to logical facts and their consequences... unfortunately this doesn't cover much ground in human experience. For all of those other parts of human life, (logical) philosophy doesn't have anything to say. Hence the concluding “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”