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I have a question regarding えば〜ほど. My understanding of it is that it means,
the more/less (property), the more/less (property).

If I want to say, the more experiences one has, the more ~ , should it be

> 経験があればあるほど、〜

or

> 経験が多ければ多いほど、〜

The second one seems slightly confusing to me, because in many example
sentences that I see, such as

> その本は、読めば読むほどわからなくなる
>
> The more you read the book, the less you will understand it.

The more/less part is embedded in the construction えば〜ほど, so the second option
経験が多ければ多いほど、〜 would translate into: The _more more_ experiences one has. Am I
getting it wrong?
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Question regarding えば〜ほど
Both examples are OK (I'd probably say 経験を積めば積むほど). In fact, if anything the
first one sounds slightly off.

When used on verbs, the way I think of this expression is that it represents a
repeating of an act, or to keep on doing something. So when I hear it with a
verb like ある that represents a state of something, it feels little bit
strange.

On adjectives, the way you think of it is that it represents a sliding scale
and correlation of one property to another. As in
多ければ多いほどよい、美しければ美しいほど敵が増える、etc. What's embedded in the construction is the
notion of correlation, and not more/less.

Another way to put it is that, unlike the English expression "the more
experiences one has", "れば～ほど" does not work with nouns.
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