Thursday, 3 January 2008

logical question

I am back with a good logical question.... that i bet you wont be able to answer......

WHO SHAVES THE BARBER??? ANSWER THIS ......
In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself, but no one else.

Then Who shaves the barber?

No matter how you try to answer this question, you will get into trouble.

If you say that the barber shaves himself, then you get into trouble. The barber shaves only those who do not shave themselves, so if he shaves himself then he doesn’t shave himself, which is self-contradictory.

If you say that the barber does not shave himself, then problems also arise. The barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself, so if he doesn’t shave himself then he shaves himself, which is again absurd.

Even if you try to get clever, saying that the barber is a woman, you do not evade the paradox. If the barber is a woman, then she either shaves herself (and so is one of the people not shaved by the barber), or does not shave herself (and so is one of the people shaved by the barber).

THEN WHO SHAVES THE BARBER??