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The Exclusive Club (Posted on 2013-07-01)

There is a club called the Exclusive Club. Somebody is a member of this club if and only if he has not shaved anybody who has shaved him. In other words, X is a member of the Exclusive Club if and only if there is no Y such that X shaves Y and Y shaves X.

A barber once claimed that he had shaved every member of the Exclusive Club and nobody else. Show that the barber's claim cannot be true.

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re(5): solution

| Comment 7 of 8 |

(In reply to re(4): solution by Daniel)

I accept your interpretation , but consider it "weak".

Nothing in the text IMHO precludes the following understanding:

Club members belong to a subset of people not shaving people who did not shave them(PNSPWDNT). This subser we call EXI.CLUB.

There might exist some PNSPWDNT out of this subset.

Using a famous paradox as a basis of logic-oriented puzzle is quite questionable.

Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2013-07-02 05:45:06

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