Barbershop Paradox

Barbershop Paradox

Release Date:  7//1894
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Medium:  Paradox
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Release Message:  The supposition that if one of two simultaneous assumptions leads to a contradiction, the other assumption is also disproved leads to paradoxical consequences. Authored by Lewis Carroll.
Description:  The Barbershop paradox was proposed by Lewis Carroll in a three-page essay titled "A Logical Paradox", which appeared in the July 1894 issue of Mind. The name comes from the "ornamental" short story that Carroll uses to illustrate the paradox (although it had appeared several times in more abstract terms in his writing and correspondence before the story was published). Carroll claimed that it illustrated "a very real difficulty in the Theory of Hypotheticals" in use at the time.[1]" What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" //// Barbershop Paradox