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