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In a village with a single male barber, who lives in the village, every man is cleanshaven. He does so by doing exactly one of two things: shaving himself, or being shaved by the barber. Who shaves the barber? Think about it. The barber lives in the village so that he will be clean-shaven. But how? Neither of the two possibilities is valid: they both result in the barber shaving himself, but he cannot do this because he shaves only those men “who do not shave themselves.”
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Nowlan, R.A. (2017). Paradox. In: Masters of Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-893-8_29
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