incomplex

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not complex

   Not complex; simple.

   • And as the Ear is in Birds the most simple and incomplex of any Animals Ear; so we may from it make an easy and rational Judgment how Hearing is performed […]
   • […] for otherwise, it is unintelligible how any incomplex thing, as they speak, can be the complete or immediate object of belief.
2. 2

   An item or thing, as opposed to a relationship between items.

   • The source of Duns's error is to regard virtual knowledge as the property of something simple, so that knowledge of one incomplex can engender knowledge of another incomplex.
   • For a question may concern either incomplexes or complexes. If it concerns incomplexes, one first asks whether some incomplex is—and this is the whether-question—and then what it is—and this is the what-question.

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