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In this case, Alice is a knave and Bob is a knight. Alice's statement cannot be true, because a knave admitting to being a knave would be the same as a liar telling the truth that "I am a liar", which is known as the liar paradox. Since Alice is a knave this means she must have been lying about them both being knaves, and so Bob is a knight.
In fact, Cretans could tell the truth quite often, but still all be liars in the sense that liars are people prone to deception for dishonest gain. Considering that "All Cretans are liars" has been seen as a paradox only since the 19th century, this seems to resolve the alleged paradox.
For Pinocchio, "my nose grows now" is a statement that merely serves to imply that whatever he said right before was a lie and that therefore his nose will probably be growing now because of that lie. In this context, the statement "my nose grows now" is a prediction or an 'educated' guess, which in its nature cannot be construed as a truth.
Mar. 30—ASHLAND — Christian comedian Chonda Pierce has altered her approach to comedy a little, but not much. "I've written probably 17 books in my career, and this will be the last one," she ...
The idea of religion can often seem serious like fire and brimstone, but it isn’t always a straight-face matter. Religion, and Christianity specifically, is full of joyful moments of laughter ...
The theory explains the natural differences in susceptibility of people to humor, the absence of humorous effect from a trite joke, the role of intonation in telling jokes, nervous laughter, etc. According to this theory, humor has a purely biological origin, while its social functions arose later.
The so-called Pope of Trash talks about his novel, Liarmouth , the 50th anniversary of his film Pink Flamingos , why Catholics have the best sex, and more
The Truth and Other Lies (Spanish: El juego de la verdad) is a 2004 Spanish comedy film directed by Álvaro Fernández Armero which stars Tristán Ulloa, Natalia Verbeke, Óscar Jaenada and María Esteve.