Philosophical investigations

“I did not seek to save others from my composition from the efforts of thought. I wanted another: to encourage someone, if possible, to independent thinking ", - so accurately, capacious and simply formulated his credo of the scientist Ludwig Wittgenstein in the preface to" philosophical research " - work, which had a huge impact as analytical philosophy, so And on the philosophy of postmodernism.
In it, he tried to develop the ideas set out by him in the "logical and philosophical treatise", and again chose the language of his study - the ordinary language of everyday communication. Describing the various strategies of the "language game" that we all deliberately or not, we use, trying to convince the interlocutor of something, or influence him, achieve any goal or simply express his thoughts and feelings, he analyzes this game and tries Understand her logic. But, paradoxical in many of his statements, Wittgenstein remains true to himself here. After all, if, according to Wittgenstein, the criterion of meaning is always and only logic, then what is the meaning of the language, given that most of the person pronounced to one degree or another contradicts the laws of logic?