I disagree pretty strongly with most of the tractatus, but I think you're doing a disservice by acting as if it's undiscussable nonsense. A lot of important de

I disagree pretty strongly with most of the tractatus, but I think you're doing a disservice by acting as if it's undiscussable nonsense. A lot of important developments in formal logic, for a specific example, modal logic and Lewis' analysis of counterfactuals, would almost certainly not have been advanced if it is wasn't for the opening sentences that you dismissed as meaningless. I think its also worth pointing out that Wittgenstein later came to reject everything he'd said in the Tractatus and laid out very different views in his later writings, which are arguably even more influential. That's a long way of me saying: go ahead and disagree the tractatus, but don't pretend there's nothing worth discussing in it.