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Old 12-02-2016, 10:47 PM
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I believe that paradox requires another premise or two to be a paradox.

(Let's call the barber Bob)

Bob shaves only people who don't shave themselves.

But this simply means he would not be "allowed" to shave himself. But there's nothing contradictory if he simply wears a beard or sees a different barber, as nothing in the premise implies he must shave himself. It could still be the case that every person Bob shaves is someone who never shaves themself.

It could be stated as "Does the barber who shaves all the people who don't shave themselves, and no others, shave himself?"

Or a little more explicitly, "Does the barber who shaves all the people who don't shave themselves, and no others, and nobody goes without shaving, shave himself?"

To which the appropriate reply is, of course, that such a barber cannot exist.
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