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Another "Mark" and I (Mark Brader) wrote:
>>> Women shave too.
>> They can; this one evidently doesn't.
> Hence the paradox. Say 'this one' doesn't shave. Then 'this one' has to
> shave herself, as she herself doesn't shave herself.
Sigh. Read it again -- *this* is the wording V. posted:
The barber who shaves all men who don't shave themselves, and no-one else.
If "men" means adult males, there is no inconsistency, provided that the
barber (1) is not an adult male, and (2) does not shave himself/herself.
> Incidentally, we've been misinformed. The wikipedia page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox refers specifically to a male
> barber...
The cited page was < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox>, not that
one. Wikipedia.org appears to be down or unreachable at the moment,
so I can't confirm (or correct) what it says there, but it sure
wouldn't be the first case of multiple pages there addressing the
same topic in inconsistent ways.
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Mark Brader | "Canadians do not exclaim. The exclamation point is
Toronto | removed from our word-processing programs at the border
msb@xxxxxxx | and sold back to the Americans for scrap." --Matthew Hart
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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