Comments on: Pinocchio Paradox

By: Cortney Brewerton

Cortney Brewerton — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:14:35 +0000

His nose will just explode. The tremendous and infinite amount of equally opposing forces would not be sustainable by the thin wooden toothpick he calls a nose

By: Rob Macy

Rob Macy — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:58:29 +0000

inconceivable!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:53:58 +0000

well the key is the”Now”. Now is an instantaneous term only corresponding to the exact instant he states it. His nose will not grow until he finishes speaking then it will grow

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:13:44 +0000

Come one yall , after all hes only a cartoon . LOL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:40:10 +0000

It’s not True and False, that’s not possible (not even in Quantum Mechanics) It is NEITHER true NOR false. A subtle distinction, but an important one.

Now it just depends on the rule that makes his nose grow.
If it is “False statements make his nose grow” then it does not grow
If it is “Statements that are not true make his nose grow” then it does.

There is no such thing as a statement that is both true an false, at least no logical statement. The paradoxes of quantum mechanics are stated as neither nors, not ands.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:56:15 +0000

egads! ANON does it again!

By: Look at the Fact's

Look at the Fact's — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:39:54 +0000

Also he could have just that second told a lie and then very truthfully he could say: ‘Now my nose will grow. . .

He seems to almost say it as a sad but inevitable fact;

Alas! My nose will now grow, for I have not spoken the truth’

By: Look at the Fact's

Look at the Fact's — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:30:53 +0000

Truthful Pinocchio is on to something really. . .
Consider for a moment that we don’t know any external factors, for example; whether Pinocchio happens to be in a bath of water. In which case his nose would surely grow because being a wooden toy he would expand slightly, given the moist environment, rendering the paradox merely a confusion due to lack of information. Which is common among people who believe in imaginary entities:)

Lying is not necessarily the only way to make his nose grow!

Hope this helps to show that you should always check what you’ve been told. . .

By: hfgudhfs

hfgudhfs — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:52:19 +0000

wtf?!?!?!!?

By: Michael Doody

Michael Doody — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:52:54 +0000

Almost everybody knows that nobody can certainly predict the future.

Therefore if he is not ignorant of this fact, he knows he is lying on at least one level. Therefore since he is Pinochio his nose will grow, unless something else intervenes (like a meteorite strike). Therefore he is probably right in his prediction. Even though he is lying. If a meteorite hits before his nose grows, then he is both wrong and lying.

If he is ignorant of the fact that predictions of the future are not certain, he has no business making predictions of the future and we have no business listening to him. A fool may or may not be deliberately lying, but the future outcome is not an indicator of his honesty in all situations.

But regardless of that, one has to consider the possibility that he is saying it because he just seconds before told a lie that is completely unrelated. We don’t know what he just said before this, so no comment may be made.