1) Easy is hard and hard is easy. 2) Easy is equal to hard. Prove the paradox duo true anyway you can. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
This reminds me of Macbeth: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air" (Act 1, Sc 1) I think I've got something on this: We see this paradox as easy to explain, but in actuality it is very very hard. (Q) however, finds this easy when we find it hard (explaining the latter part of #1). Easy = hard...does #2 mean anyone can understand it? Or that, things which are easy are quite hard to some people, while something that is easy to those same people is tough on others? Is it all a matter of perception? -Blue :m:
Bluesoul, I take it you're in the midst of studying Macbeth in school. For starters, there's no need (actually, it's wrong) to put the second part of the witch's first speech ("Hover...."). They, and other characters, restate the "fair is foul and foul is fair" bit a few times - it is the important part. And on top of that, I don't think this quite relates to Q's problem, however I may be wrong. The witches are stating a reversal of moral order and moral right. This line in Macbeth is used to accomadate many things, though.
Meh...I never knew we weren't supposed to quote the second part. My teacher's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I beg to differ: I thought it was very pertinent. In comparing two different things (easy:hard, fair:foul), I thought quoting Macbeth might help us clear things up by providing another example. However, (Q) hasn't said anything yet...so I guess it's still all in speculation.
Prove the paradox duo true anyway you can Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I'll give it a try ... Easy is hard and hard is easy. Easy money can be hard to come by. Hard-earned money can be easy to lose. Easy is equal to hard. Easy is equal to hard because both represent money.
Oh! I know how "Hover through fog and filthy air" can be related to "Fair is foul and foul is fair". Fog = grey. Hover = neither on the ground nor floating away. Therefore it is in the middle. There is no right or wrong, no black and white way of explaining it. By being both foul and fair at the same time, you are neither foul nor fair, but something of the two. They're interchangeable? As with hard and easy? Maybe. Where's (Q) with the solution? I would like to hear the correct answer...
Where's (Q) with the solution? I'm here - still waiting for someone to come up with a solution. *hint* "Synthesis"
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Excuse me for a minute. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1... !!!BOOM!!! *brains splatter against the wall* Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I'm even more confused than before Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
*picks %BlueSoulRobot%'s brains off the wall* Hehe you silly. My mind is not yet apt to think Hegelianly. How do you combine thesis and antithesis to prove that Easy = Hard? Me confused. Will continue to ponder until brain splatters on the wall.
*runs for cover* Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Perhaps (Q)'s talking about synthesis reaction? I've been learning about it in Chem...maybe he means that a chemical reaction is easy to perform, yet very difficult to reverse? But..that makes no sense when it comes to the second sentence. (Psss...Q, you can tell us if we're warm or cold. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! )
Halo, maybe you're on the right track - thesis and anti-thesis. Q did hint at synthesis. I'm thinking something along that line too.
