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But isn't
ˇ, 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
of 32 wh
[a|i]te and 32
black squares
; :
– but mightn't you say
for
instance also , e.g.,
that it is made up of the colours
[b|w]hite, black and the
pattern of
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
whether the verb
s in
this
and that such & such sentence
s
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 ac
tive or something
passive.
The word “complex” (and so the w
ord
“simple”
ˇ also) is
one that
we use
d ˇby us in innumerable different ways, connected in
various ways with
one another
each.
(Is the colour of this square
the chess board simple,
or does it consist of pure white and pure yellow?
And is the white simple, or is it
of the colours of the
rain
_bow? –
Is this
of
2 cm simple, or does it consist of two
part
s 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?)