| Ever heard of Russell’s Paradox? “Consider a barber who shaves exactly those men who do not shave themselves.” So who shaves the barber? The barber shaves every man who doesn’t shave himself so can’t give a self-shave. This always puzzled me. Not because it was hard to answer, but because no one seemed able to answer it. When I first heard this, I came up with:- 1) the barber is a young teenager, not yet needing a shave 2) the barber has a beard and is never shaved 3) the barber is a woman I wonder how many “insoluble” problems the world’s finest thinkers have failed us in, as they can’t see the obvious? Link: Get notified when Andy publishes a new book |
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 