But isn'ta chess board, for instance, || , say, a chess board obviously and without qualification complex? – You are probably || I suppose you're thinking of its being made up || composed of 32 white and 32 black squares; || : – but mightn't you sayfor instance also || , e.g., that it is made up of the colours white, black and the pattern of the || a net of squares? And so, if there are entirely different ways of looking at it, do you still want to say that the chess board is “complex” || ‘complex’ without qualification? The mistake of asking, outside of a particular game, || : “Is this object complex?”, is similar to that which a small boy once made who had to say || to decide whether the verb in this and that sentence was || verbs in such & such sentences were used in the active or in the passive form, and who then reflected || pondered the question || now tried to puzzle out whether for instance the verb “to sleep” || the verb “to sleep”, for instance, meant something active or something passive.
     The word “complex” (and so the word “simple” also) is one that we use || used by us in innumerable different ways, connected in various ways with one another || each other. (Is the colour of this square in || of the chess board simple, or does it consist of pure white and pure yellow? And is the white simple, or is it made up || composed of the colours of the rainbow? – Is this stretch || line of 2 cm simple, or does it consist of two part stretches || parts of 1 cm each? But why not of a piece 3 cm long || of 3 cm, and a piece of 1 cm added on in a negative sense?)