phaze 91 Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 On 6/18/2016 at 8:00 AM, Flyt4th said: ITS TOTALLY OBVIOUS. HE DOESN'T SHAVE Then hasn't he broken his creed. Mind you he has already broken his promise to all the women and children who do not shave themselves because they have no need to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joshuagenes 0 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 No one shaves the barber if he is a tranny or a woman or a child that doesn't have facial hair to shave or he has had his beard lasered off or he uses Nair hair removal. You don't need to shave those who don't have hair to shave. This is implied by the nature of shaving due to shaving needs. No one shaves the barber if he is a tranny or a woman or a child that doesn't have facial hair to shave or he has had his beard lasered off or he uses Nair hair removal. You don't need to shave those who don't have hair to shave. This is implied by the nature of shaving due to shaving needs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skyler 0 Posted October 6, 2017 Report Share Posted October 6, 2017 Himself. The barber shaves himself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magicalwiper 0 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 Simple really, there is nothing saying that the barber lives in the village, therefore he is able to go to another barber because he does not live in the village Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alex Randall 5th 0 Posted June 1, 2019 Report Share Posted June 1, 2019 The barber is a woman. She does not shave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gremlin12 0 Posted December 6, 2019 Report Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) The solution is simply that there is no such barber (and neither could there be). It's not really a paradox because the solution is so simple (as Russell himself notes in, I think, *Philosophy of Logical Atomism*--it's not actually his paradox, but was suggested to him as a paradox and he disagreed). The real Russellian paradoxes begin with the paradox of the class of classes that are not members of themselves. Is this class a member of itself? If yes, then no; if no, then yes. Contradiction. (How about the property of being a property that doesn't characterize itself? There are many more.) Like the Barber, the simple class paradox can be superficially 'solved' by saying there's no such class (as opposed to Barber). But now we have a real paradox because it's not at all clear why there should be no such class. Edited December 6, 2019 by gremlin12 reformulation Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j Smith 0 Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 (edited) not a who, rather a what... the RAZOR shaves the barber, as well as all the rest. no razor/Razer/raiser/razier shall touch my head... so, be phonecian and linguistically intelligent. illusion, elusion, allusion... they sound similar yet mean VERY MUCH non similar subjects Edited December 18, 2019 by j Smith Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saviga jhons 0 Posted April 14 Report Share Posted April 14 the people who do shave themselves shaves the barber! simple! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chakri 0 Posted May 3 Report Share Posted May 3 On 7/3/2007 at 6:14 AM, Guest said: This is the original paradox, one that can't be solved In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself/herself, but no one else. Who shaves the barber? The barber is a woman The barber is a woman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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