What happens if pinocchio

A prediction of the future cannot be a lie. A prediction of the future can be wrong, but it is not a lie, unless one has seen the future, and knows the statement to be false, it cannot be a lie. If it does not grow, he has made an unsuccessful situation, and his nose will not grow. The real question is would his nose ever grow? If it is implied that he is lying, so that his nose will grow, then he would ultimately be telling the truth and his nose would never grow. The statement first is a lie, then it becomes true the instant after he says now… because then only then do you see that his nose grew after the lie.

It cannot have values of both 1 and 0 at the same time. He asks the Blue Fairy why this is happening and the Blue Fairy responds by informing him that his nose will grow longer every time he tells lies. Disney usually tames their stories from the often darker original source material to make their movies a bit more family-friendly. Invulnerability: As a living puppet, Pinocchio is invulnerable to bodily harm to an extent and feels no pain.

Pinocchio Died by Hanging Soon after, a talking cricket tries to warn Pinocchio about bad behavior, but the animated puppet kills it with a hammer to be fair, that was an accident.

The wooden miscreant goes on to commit several other misdeeds before the Cat and the Fox hang him at the end of the fifteenth chapter. Destiny 2. What happens next is up to the story-teller, because Pinocchio is a fictional character whose world is not constrained to any particular laws of physics hence the quite literally fabled properties of his nose nor logical consistency which must perforce go out the window if Pinocchio succeeds in implementing the Liar's paradox.

Or more precisely: the logic which is best suited for effective reasoning in Pinocchio's world depends on what the story-teller decides happens, and that logic needn't be classical logic. NieldeBeaudrap: Well played, like the guy, who, told to measure the height of skyscraper with a barometer, dropped it off the top and timed it. If he is a little boy than chances is that as he grows older his nose will indeed grow. Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. That looks like a paradox, but it isn't.

Nothing is true or false until it is. Improve this answer. Trylks Trylks 5 5 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. While I want to give you credit for this answer, I still have to give you a —1, because your treatment of the paradox that the author was really getting at seems quite weak. The paradox is the crux, and you just hand-wave it away. WRT "the paradox is the crux", there is no paradox, maybe the question could be reworded or formalized so that there is some paradox, but there is no paradox so far.

Anyway, if Pinocchio succeeded in creating a paradox: "then the nose will not react to that. Actually, I thought you did a good job clarifying such that it would become a paradox? One can call it nit-picking, but in philosophy discussions, nitpicking is often a good thing! There is no paradox, but if there ever was one, the nose would not react to that, because it does not react to paradoxes , it reacts to lies as I pointed in the original answer.

It's a tale to tell children not to lie , but nobody cared to say not to troll or not to hack. I suppose you could make a play on 'lie' vs. It just seems like you're taking the easy way out, and not addressing the issue head-on. But I could be wrong. Show 2 more comments. MichaelRushton MichaelRushton 8 8 bronze badges. Once you accept a contradiction in bivalent logic, anything can be proven true. Then don't accept it. I don't understand how "If anything can be proven true, anything can be proven false.

Also, re. Because I'm not. I'm arguing that the premises lead to a contradiction and so one of the premises is false. Reductio ad absurdum; proof by contradiction. It's a premise which leads to a contradiction. Therefore it is false. A self-evident principle or one that is accepted as true without proof as the basis for argument; a postulate.

As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.