Wittgenstein concluded his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with the famous line: ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.’ I think that is defeatist, as did Wittgenstein in later life. A better denouement would be: ‘Whereof we cannot know, there our imaginations can play.’ After all, it’s by telling stories that we began our journey to know what we know.
