Solve or resolve

I think in order to decide whether to use solve or resolve, the type of 'difficulty' is very important. What is exactly the difficulty?

Hi,

Without knowing the details of your context, it sounds to me like 'resolve' might be better. It has the sense of settling a dispute by bringing different parties to an agreement.

Clive

Well, to put it simply, the difficulty consists in a contradiction between different texts.

As a considerale generalization, I'd consider 'solve' if your focus is on the problem, and 'resolve' if your focus is on the people who disagree about the problem.

Clive

I think it works. Anyway, I give you the context:

"The first thing to note about this account is that, whereas the texts quoted at the beginning of this section said that the state of mental perturbation was induced by the anomalies the future Skeptic found in things, we are now told that this state is the result of the holding of beliefs. This is not necessarily problematic, since it may

I'll stick with 'resolve'. One repetition is ok. Relax.