Do you know any paradox like Pinocchio saying "My nose will grow now!"?

How is this a paradox? Where is the contradiction?

his nose only grows when he is lying!

1. if his nose grows, he is not lying *#! (his nose shouldn’t grow)
2. if his nose does not grow, he is lying *#! (his nose should grow)

it’s just not workin…

“I am a pathological lier.”

Ooh I have a good one!

There is a $1 million prize up for grabs for the person who can work out the formula for prime numbers. However, this person can make an endless amount of money by using their formula to de-code debit and credit card details found online, and in stores. They will literally have access to all the money in the world!

So the $1 million prize looks trivial now, no?

@jeschge his nose only grows when he is lying!

He says “George Bush is a wise man”. Then he says “whoops, now my nose will grow.

@strawberrypomme

One million dollars would never look “trivial” to me! Heh!

@DarkScribe
right, but it’s about the sentence “my nose will grow now!”—> this IS a paradox!

Yeah I got one….” my MIL will leave now” that is a huge paradox…

Politically Correct.

The mathematical value “i” (Sqrt of minus 1)

There is the Richard Paradox:
”The smallest number that cannot be defined by a phrase in the English language containing fewer than twenty words”
Notice that the description has only 19 words, leading to the paradox.

Pinocchio has a woman sit on his face. His nose grows.

Does that mean he does not like it?

There are many such logical paradoxes. The simplest is the so-called Epimenides paradox, which boils down to: This statement is false. (Epimenides, from the island of Crete, originally stated that “all Cretins are liars”)

Mathematically, it’s said to have an indeterminate truth value—neither true nor false.

Such problems are discussed in great detail in Douglas Hofstadter’s masterpiece Godel, Escher, and Bach. Ultimately it ties in with Godel’s Undecidability theorem, which says that in a formal logical system of sufficient complexity, there are theorems which can neither be proven true nor false.

Kind of like the square root of minus 1? : D

This sentence is not true.

My pregnant goldfish was due February 30. Should I be worried?