There was a MOOC from TU Delft called Solving Complex Problems. The course professor made a distinction with the term ‘complex’ as different from complicated. T

There was a MOOC from TU Delft called Solving Complex Problems. The course professor made a distinction with the term ‘complex’ as different from complicated. The complex problems in the course involved people and opinions and personal/self interest in public policy. I recall hearing in another context the distinction between a complicated Swiss watch versus a cockroach, which would be described as complex. Through that lens your question is undermined. But I take your point. I would say there are a lot of complex ideas I understand from philosophy; however, the very language you use contains critical distinctions. The terms and their construction are not plastic, or forgiving, so an extemporaneous explanation for a lay audience frequently fails. A complicated idea which I understand with a more stable basis is accounting’s debit-credit model. Then again, teaching this versus explaining it to someone is different depending on your num3rical literacy. How much time do you have? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042885