Pinocchio eats sugar, but refuses to take medicine. When the undertakers come for him, he drinks the medicine and feels better. Afterwards he tells a lie and, in punishment, his nose grows longer and longer. Ultimately, the meaning of his nose growing is to set a precedent.

The premise that Pinocchio's nose grows if and only if he claims any falsehood is given as: ∀x: G ↔ C(x) ∧ ¬x If Pinocchio's claim is that his nose will grow then this is given as: G ↔ C(G) ∧ ¬G This is a contradiction. Therefore the premise that Pinocchio's nose grows if and only if he claims any falsehood is necessarily false:

Pinocchio's nose does not grow now because according to the novel it grows only as Pinocchio lies, but then; Pinocchio's nose grows now because Pinocchio's nose does not grow now, and Pinocchio trustfully says it grows now, and it is false, that makes Pinocchio's sentence to be false, but then; Pinocchio's nose does not grow now because ...

2017年3月8日 · In chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto shapes the piece of wood Mastro Cherry had given him into a marionette. When he creates the nose, it starts growing uncontrollably: After the ...

2021年7月11日 · In the beginning of Chapter Three of his autobiography, Benito Mussolini writes the following: War had come — war — that female of dreads and fascinations. What is supposed to be conveyed by call...

In chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto shapes the piece of wood Mastro Cherry had given him into a marionette. When he creates the nose, it starts growing uncontrollably: After the ...

2024年12月11日 · It is an empirical fact that you cannot escape from your body. So how do you have access to the world? You can smell through your nose, you can see through your eyes, you can touch a stone with your hands. That is a fact. Between the world and the world lie your senses and you cannot question that, which makes classical realism impossible (Kant).

(The whole question, of course, is reminiscent of the classic joke maxim: "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose," as well as a variation on it I heard a couple decades ago: "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't legislate morality.")

It's old.Like, really old. So old that it's impossible to tell where it originated. The book The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie, published in 1959, catalogues many different schoolyard poems from throughout the first half of the twentieth century, including the following version of the one you're interested in:

2025年1月28日 · @OleksandrBondarenko In a war one side must 'belittle' (your word) the other. It can be a literal absolute requirement at risk of treason otherwise. This can — to a more peaceful viewpoint at least — look like Cut the nose to spite the face. The continental-anglophone philosophy divide is essentially a product of the world wars.