This article addresses the concept of complexity and its effect on the logic of the design problem. It argues that the competing interpretations of complexity represent a logical antinomy (in the Kantian sense), and that this prevents the concept's further elaboration. It is necessary therefore to address the conditions that have produced this antinomy. Using the Hegelian category of the determination of reflection, complexity is then reconsidered as the effect of the circular logic by which a social system is defined. The complexity of the design problem is then redefined on the basis of this elaboration.

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以空虚为条件的知识：关于复杂性和设计问题

本文介绍了复杂性的概念及其对设计问题逻辑的影响。它认为复杂性的竞争解释代表了逻辑二律背反（康德意义上的），这阻碍了概念的进一步阐述。因此，有必要解决产生这种矛盾的条件。使用黑格尔的反思决定范畴，复杂性被重新考虑为循环逻辑的结果，社会系统由此被定义。然后在此阐述的基础上重新定义设计问题的复杂性。