I totally agree with all you say. I am unaware of Meyer, but I will have to seek him out. The quote you give is similar to thoughts given by Henri Bergson and others who reject the positivist notion that reality and experience can be reduced to discrete units. I think you are correct about Wittgenstein's meaning.
This topic is important to me, because Berkeley taught us an important lesson about human language and knowledge. Hume and Kant took him seriously, as do some philosophers. But the truth Berkeley exposes debunks the preferred narrative of many in science and analytical philosophy. They have no answer to Berkeley, so they simply ignore the truth he revealed.
Yes, empiricism rescues us, but what kind of empiricism?