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But isn't
a chess board, for instance, || , say, a
chess board obviously and w
ithout qualification
complex? –
You are probably || I suppose
you're thinking of its being
made
up || composed of 32 wh
ite and 32
black squares
; || :
– but mightn't you say
for
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?)