何以 and 有以 ask and supply means
The poem asks by what means people can get through the year without clothes. Sunzi advises relying on having means to meet an adversary. Putting the forms together helps readers distinguish interrogative 何以 from the affirmative capacity expressed by 有以.
無衣無褐，何以卒歲？何 precedes 以 in a question about means.
tls · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR1c0001_015.txt, lines 24–34恃吾有以待也有以 presents a capacity on which to rely.
tls · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR3b0003_008.txt, lines 48–56Make the comparison explicit
The poem asks by what means people can get through the year without clothes. Sunzi advises relying on having means to meet an adversary. Putting the forms together helps readers distinguish interrogative 何以 from the affirmative capacity expressed by 有以.
詩經: 何 precedes 以 in a question about means.
孫子: 有以 presents a capacity on which to rely.
What changes when 何 is replaced by 有 in these constructions?
The question about a means becomes an assertion of having a means or capacity.
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