Voices. Logical Paradoxes » The Barber Paradox. The Barber paradox is attributed to the British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
It highlights a fundamental problem in mathematics, exposing an inconsistency in the basic principles on which mathematics is founded. The barber paradox asks us to consider the following situation: In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself, but no one else. The question that prompts the paradox is this: Who shaves the barber? Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!