Ludwig Wittgenstein is a British philosopher of Austrian origin, one of the most original thinkers of European philosophy of the 20th century, the creator of the theory of constructing an artificial "ideal" language based on the language of mathematical logic. others from the effort of thought. I wanted something else: to encourage someone, if possible, to independent thinking” – so precisely, succinctly and simply formulated his credo of the scientist Ludwig Wittgenstein in the preface to the “Philosophical Investigations” – a work that had a huge impact on both analytical philosophy and on the philosophy of postmodernism.In it, he tried to develop the ideas outlined by him in the Logical-Philosophical Treatise, and again chose language as the object of his study - the everyday language of everyday communication. Describing the various strategies of the “language game” that we all, consciously or not, use, trying to convince the interlocutor of something, or influence him, achieve some goal, or simply express our thoughts and feelings, he analyzes this game and trying to understand her logic. But, paradoxical in many of his statements, Wittgenstein here remains true to himself. After all, if, according to Wittgenstein, the criterion of meaning is always and only logic, then what is the meaning of language, given that most of what a person utters to one degree or another contradicts the laws of logic?The publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format .