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"I am able to do X." "It is now easier for you to be able to do X." "I am unable to do X." "It is now easier for you to be unable to do X." The latter makes
by fallous 9y ago
"I am able to do X." "It is now easier for you to be able to do X." "I am unable to do X." "It is now easier for you to be unable to do X." The latter makes no sense. Moving from the impossible to the possible isn't an easing, it's a fundamental change in the nature of a thing.
- taneq 9y agoDepends on your definitions, I guess. If you define "easier" as "decreases the difficulty of doing X" then it makes sense as you've reduced an infinite difficulty down to a finite difficulty.
- fallous 9y agoNote you changed the nature of the problem by turning "infinite difficulty" into "finite difficulty." Subtract all the difficulty you want from "infinite" and you still end up with infinite, unless of course you subtract infinite difficulty from it... which means you qualitatively changed it from infinite difficulty to merely difficult.