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The article formulates preliminary critical remarks on the reading of L. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and understanding of the rule-following problem proposed by G. Priest in the context of the limits of expressibility at the limits of thought. In the introductory and first sections, we briefly explicate Priest’s position and provide examples of the limits of expressibility both proposed by Priest and our own. The second section formulates the “doctrine” of the inexpressible in the Tractatus in the context of a determined and traditional reading of this Wittgenstein’s work. In the last section, we offer criticism of the relevance of Priest’s reading of the Tractatus and his understanding of the rule-following problem.