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  2. Pinocchio paradox - Wikipedia

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    Pinocchio is a hero of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio, an animated puppet, is punished for each lie that he tells by undergoing further growth of his nose. [3] There are no restrictions on the length of Pinocchio's nose.

  3. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    These paradoxes may be due to fallacious reasoning , or an unintuitive solution . The term paradox is often used to describe a counter-intuitive result. However, some of these paradoxes qualify to fit into the mainstream viewpoint of a paradox, which is a self-contradictory result gained even while properly applying accepted ways of reasoning .

  4. Liar paradox - Wikipedia

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    If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the truth, which means the liar just lied. In "this sentence is a lie", the paradox is strengthened in order to make it amenable to more rigorous logical analysis. It is still generally called the "liar paradox" although abstraction is made precisely from the liar making the statement.

  5. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia

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    There are other related puzzles in The Riddle of Scheherazade. [6] [7] The puzzle is based on Knights and Knaves puzzles. One setting for this puzzle is a fictional island inhabited only by knights and knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie.

  6. Give a Little Whistle - Wikipedia

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    "Give a Little Whistle" is a song written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for Walt Disney's 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio. The original version was sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket and Dickie Jones in the character of Pinocchio, and is teaching how to whistle in the film.

  7. Solution to Riddle of the Week: The Whisky and Water Problem

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    Indeed, this is the solution no matter the size of the spoon. To answer more carefully, let’s assume each glass has 100 milliliters (mL) of each liquid to start with: Alan’s has 100 mL of ...

  8. Raymond Smullyan - Wikipedia

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    In addition, humans always tell the truth, and vampires always lie. For example, an insane vampire will believe a false thing (2 + 2 is not 4) but will then lie about it, and say that it is false. A sane vampire knows 2 + 2 is 4, but will lie and say it is not. And mutatis mutandis for humans. Thus everything said by a sane human or an insane ...

  9. Land of Toys - Wikipedia

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    The original representation of the Land of Toys mixes the aspects of a morality tale with those of social critique.. Children (depending upon the translation of the original Italian, the novel has included both boys and girls or only boys) are lured there by the Coachman with the promise of never having to go to school or work again and being able to spend their whole time having fun, and the ...