mind. blown.

I should have elaborated, this really isn’t a paradox if you consider two kinds of truths. Subjectively (himself) he knows he has said something that violates what he beleives is true and his nose grows. Objectively (everyone around him) he has infact told the truth and as a result because we beleive that his nose only grows when he tells a lie it appears as if there is a paradox occuring.

this would be a great tool to teach objective vs, subjective truth.

*head explodes*

Would it work if instead of saying it will grow, if he says “my nose is growing” at a time when his nose is not currently growing? He would be lying and that would cause his nose to start growing, making his statement true.

perhaps he has a good reason for carrying around a pencil sharpener? Or a whittling knife?

Agree with Jack Shepherd. I just realized that you have the same name as that guy in Lost.

Point of order in re Sam Kujawski. That goddamned felafel place near me is closed about every fifth time I wheel up there because of some holiday or another. SON OF A BITCH. I swear to god those guys have more holidays than… than… than conjoined twins where the two heads subscribe to different religions. Or something. I’m just saying, often I tell people with full confidence that I’m going to go satisfy my felafel pita addiction and wind up with a paradoxical nose.

Disagree with Sam Kujawski. If you put a sandwich shop in a box during lunchtime and refuse to look inside the box, the sandwich shop is both closed and not closed at the same time. More importantly, however, Pinnochio would not be able to get his promised sandwich in this instance on account of his local sandwich shop would be stuck inside a closed box. QED.

Disagree with Jack Shepherd. Why would any sandwich shop be closed around lunch time? The false belief in that situation would be the sandwich shop thinking, “We’ll stay in business.” Your argument is invalid due to an absurdity.

My favourite paradox is….. “EVERYTHING I say is a lie…”

Agreed with Gemini6Ice. The nose grows when he lies. Stating that his nose “will grow now” is a false belief, not a lie. It’s like saying, “I’m going to have a sandwich for lunch today” before you realize that the sandwich shop is closed.

Solution: the nose doesn’t grow when he says something untrue; it grows when he says something he does not believe himself. So his nose may or may not grow depending on what he expects to happen.