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by nolemurs 3054 days ago
> Sure, with enough manipulation you can bring this down to the liars paradox, but that is the case for every paradox.

As @nwjtkjn said, I'm pretty sure the Barber's paradox was literally just Russel's conscious and direct attempt to reframe the Liar's paradox in the context of set theory.

I would be willing to wager that Russel himself would have accepted the idea that his Barber's paradox was basically just the Liar's paradox. It's not as if these are two random unrelated paradoxes here.