
Peter Cave on Paradoxes
Philosophy Bites
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The Paradox of Murder
A famous paradox which was discussed by Burshin Russell is the Barbara paradox. You have a very simple idea that a barber could in fact decide to shave all those people who do not shave themselves. The question then is well, where's the truth of the situation with regard to the barber? Does he shave himself or not? If he does shave himself then he should be somebody whom he doesn’t shave and if he doesn't shave himself than he should be someone whom he does shave. So here we seem to have a problem in which the barber is both truthfully shaving himself and truthfully not shaving himself which is a blatant contradiction. And there's another category of
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