Russell's “complexes” were to have the useful property of being compounded, & were to combine with this the agreeable property that they could be treated as || like “simples”. But this alone made them unserviceable as logical types, since there would have been significance in asserting, of a simple, that it was complex. But a property cannot be a logical type.

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