Second chance to responding to Why is this a paradox? Can you solve it? Barber case?

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Second chance to responding to Why is this a paradox? Can you solve it? Barber case?

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ParadoxbrThere is a village where the barber shaves all those and only those who do not shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?brbrMy commentsbrI was annoyed by the fact that Yahoo Featured proposed an article as interesting as this but there was no possibility to comment because the question was old. I wanted to give my contribution and you have a second chance to give yours too.brbrSome replied that the barber is a woman or a robot. I like this reply because it thinks outside the box, yet in my opinion it is not excluded that the barber needs to be shaved regardless of it being a woman or a very sophisticated robot for that matter. brbrIn my opinion we need not limit the categories to only two nonselfshavers and selfshavers. There may be further categories, the simplest case being four brbr, NonSelfShaversWhoDoNotShaveOthersbr, SelfShaversWhoDoNotShaveOthersbr, NonSelfShaversWhoDoShaveOthers, and br, SelfShaversWhoDoShaveOthers. brbrIn this case, barber is one of the NonSelfShaversWhoDoesShaveOthers. Still, this reply solves the paradox, however I am not too happy with it because although it does think outside the box, it seems like it modifies the quotriddlequot from its original case. brbrHence I wonder, can the NonSelfShaversWhoDoShaveOthers and NonSelfShaversWhoDoShaveOthers be grouped in a single mother group? brbrGive your views about how the paradox is to be solved.