Language, thinking and phenomenon of inner speech as keys to understanding of L. Wittgenstein's ideas

The research objective was discussion of an essence what was necessary to accompany with silence in the context of the statement "whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent". It would allow finding new ways for strengthening of any explanatory interpretation of ideas of L. Wittgenstein. The author believed that L. Wittgenstein allowed basic mixture of language (set of signs and rules of their application) and the speech (practice of the use of signs in the course of communication). Strict distinction of these phenomena allowed to bypass "ban" on promotion of statements concerning about what in standard conditions it was necessary to be silent. At the same time the question of all variety of ways of understanding of language and the speech in the context of L. Wittgenstein's statements was reduced to a problem of so-called individual language as formation process of "inner speech". The author reasons, what exactly this phenomenon opened by L.S. Vygotsky, allowed to clear borders in which L. Wittgenstein's statement "whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" lost the general meaning and became only a case of speech practice along with other options of communication. It was as a result revealed that the thinking and language had no indissoluble communication though the thinking and could not be carried out without use of the general forms of language. Application of language within the inner speech was capable to conduct to a relative extra rationality of statements because language in this moment was applied without use of the general forms of thinking. In this case statements were clear only speaking, and the general possibility of their basic clearing was provided with a creation context of "individual phrases".

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