Guest Posted June 9, 2011 Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 Maybe the barber just never shaves =O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Maybe the barbers got a multiple personality disorder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 So if barber is born in that village - shave no one.( also seems no one shaves there and that is his name) if barber is out coming - he shave himself and all other who can't shave itself. because seems it is a barber for sure - he is out coming and paradox moves to point that all in that villages suddenly start to shaves... which(why) new coming changes old set (are valuable). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 Barber Paradox (Russell's Paradox) - Back to the Paradoxes Analogue paradox to the paradox of liar formulated English logician, philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell. There was a barber in a village, who promised to shave everybody, who does not shave himself (or herself). Can the barber shave himself and keep the mentioned promise? Edited (better wording?): In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself/herself, but no one else. Who shaves the barber? in the first wording, he can shave himslef but he chooses not to, but shaving himself or not he still keeps his promise. in the seccond wording however, the promiss restrics him from shaving himself for he is capable of shaving himself, therefor since he made the promiss " i will shave only those who are not cappable of shaving themselves" he is cappable, so the promiss means he is resticted. but if you wish to argue more, the promiss restricts him therefor he is uncappable of shaving himelf. so if that loophole is found he may shave himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 NO ONE! THE BARBER IS A WOMAN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Perhaps there is another barber in the village and many of the villagers get shaved by him. This being the case our barber could keep his promise to shave everyone who does not shave him/her self including himself, because he too gets shaved by the other barber. Then he isn't shaving himself, which means he must shave himself, which means he must not shave him self, which means he must shave himself..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Mystery solved, why one should believe that barber must be shaved. The answer is that no body shaves the barber …….very simple. OR barber gets another barber to get shaved….. also very simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 my question is does the barber shave everyone that doesn't shave themselves weather thay want to or not. i mean if some one wants to grow their beard out,then will he break into their houses when their asleep and shave them. if not, then who sais he has to shave at all. the barber can just grow his beard out and trim it now and then (which is not the same as shaving). am i right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 The barber doesn't shave. He looks like Brian Wilson as he trims it. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I would of thought that with the question in hand, there can be a simpler explanation (although i am not sure it is plausible). you could say that if the barber does keep their promise, what doesn't stop a member of the public being able to shave the barber?! surely that fits the question nicely, if you think of paradoxes as questions...because you are trying to solve them really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmee73 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 (edited) In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself/herself, but no one else. Who shaves the barber? There is no absolute answer. Ok, so the barber will shave anyone that does not shave him or herself and will not shave anyone else, The barber can not shave himself as that would be someone who shaves themself. Anyone in the village that shaves or does not shave his or herself could shave the barber.The barber may not shave. Edited June 14, 2012 by timmee73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logiclover Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 No one shaves the barber because the barber doesn't shave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoogirl360 Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 The original version I heard had one very important difference: In a village, there is a barber who shaves everyone that does not shave himself, and no one else. Who shaves the barber? In this case, there is a very simple way to circumvent the paradox: The barber is a woman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingkop18 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 get it shaved from another barber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iSpelBadlie Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 this is possible, cause the barber could be a connected twin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iSpelBadlie Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 or maybe he's not part of the village OOOOH DID"YA EVER THINK OF THAT???!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmiles Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 No one Hairy bastard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martis Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 If you insist on a resolution, it'd be : The barber doesn't need to shave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upgrtan Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 The paradox states "the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself/herself, but no one else.", this means that another barber canot shave him as he would then be one of the people not shaving himself and the barber in question can not shave himself as he can only shave people who do not shave themselves. This leaves one logical conclusion, the barber does not shave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2bEEaton Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 if the barber will shave everyone who eill not shave themself then it is right to assume that THE BARBER will shave himself because the question implys that he has not already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtleman Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 What if the barber get shaved by someone else, so that he's part of the people which don't shave themselves,than shaves himself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) The clue is in the commas, they separate the sentence into... There was a barber in a village (who promised to shave everybody) who does not shave himself. So he simply says I'll shave everyone but myself because I don't shave. Edited November 12, 2015 by GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocorocha Posted January 7, 2016 Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) Cool Edited January 7, 2016 by Cocorocha Idk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 A robot can cut his hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyt4th Posted June 17, 2016 Report Share Posted June 17, 2016 ITS TOTALLY OBVIOUS. HE DOESN'T SHAVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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