incomplex
incomplex adjective: not complex; simple.
Adjective
incomplex (comparative more incomplex, superlative most incomplex)
- 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 […]1742, William Derham, Physico-theology; Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
- […] for otherwise, it is unintelligible how any incomplex thing, as they speak, can be the complete or immediate object of belief.1831, Isaac Barrow, “Sermon IV. Of Justifying Faith”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow: Sermons on the Apostles' creed
Noun
incomplex (plural incomplexes)
- 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.1975, Gordon Leff, William of Ockham: The Metamorphosis of Scholastic Discourse
- 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.2012, Gabriele Galluzzo, The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Examples of incomplex in a sentence
- There are two kinds of simple apprehension, incomplex and complex.1853, Ignoratio Elenchi, A Treatise on Logic, Not Exactly on the Basis of Aldrich, page 2:
- The number which expresses units only is called a whole, a simple, or an incomplex number.1861, Bewich Bridge, “On the different kinds of numbers”, in An elementary treatise on algebra, page 125:
- For Ockham, all acts are either incomplex or complex.2018, Jenny Pelletier, Magali Roques, editors, The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy:
Forms of incomplex
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more incomplex |
| superlative | most incomplex |
| Noun | |
| plural | incomplexes |
Origin of incomplex
From in- + complex.
Questions about incomplex
- What does incomplex mean?
- Incomplex means not complex; simple.
- How do you use incomplex in a sentence?
- There are two kinds of simple apprehension, incomplex and complex.
- What part of speech is incomplex?
- Incomplex can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near incomplex in the dictionary
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