Paradox of the Week: The Barber Paradox

A barber in a town has a paradoxical problem.

A man in the town has a dog. The dog has a tail. The tail has a paradox.

Is the dog's tail a paradox? If so, does it have a paradoxical tail?

This is the paradox of the barber, where the truth is as slippery as a snake's hind leg.

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