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Parent poster forgot a critical condition for it to be a paradox. As they stated it's not, a second barber could shave both themself and the first barber. The

Parent poster forgot a critical condition for it to be a paradox. As they stated it's not, a second barber could shave both themself and the first barber. The paradoxical statement would be "A barber shaves all those, and only those, who do not shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?" Without the second condition (only those who don't shave themselves) it's non-paradoxical.

bigbubba 6y ago
Replace 'A' with 'The' and it works. Tbh I assumed people were already familiar with the Barber Paradox and didn't word it defensively, but if you take 'a barber' as referring to a specific barber then it's a paradox.