Tractatus

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To perceive a complex means to perceive that its constituents are combined in such and such a way. This perhaps explains that the figure

Cube with a face and b face
can be seen in two ways as a cube; and all similar phenomena. For we really see two different facts.

(If I fix my eyes first on the corners a and only glance at b, a appears in front and b behind, and vice versa.)