s a man in our town with a beard. In this case, the barber does not shave himself (because he has a beard); but then according to his claim (that he shaves all men who do not shave themselves), he must shave himself.
In a similar way, the paradox still occurs if the barber is a man in our town who cannot grow a beard. Once again, he does not shave himself (because he has no hair on his face), but that implies that he does shave himself.
- The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, reprinted in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, 1914-19, Vol 8., p. 228
- Proposition of the Barber's Paradox
- Joyce, Helen. "Mathematical mysteries: The Barber's Paradox." Plus, May 2002.
- Edsger Dijkstra's take on the problem
- The Monist, Vol. 29, No. 3, JULY, 1919, THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGICAL ATOMISM, page 354