Pinocchio paradox it is a special case because it has no semantic predicates, as for example "My sentence is false" does. The Pinocchio paradox has nothing to do with Pinocchio being a known liar. If Pinocchio were to say "I am getting sick," this could be either true or false, but Pinocchio's sentence "My nose grows now" can be neither true nor false; hence this and only this sentence creates the Pinocchio (liar) paradox. Pinocchio is a hero of the children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio, an animated puppet, is punished for each lie that he
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils The Wonderful Adventures of Nils The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige", "Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden") is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It was published in two books, "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" in 1906 and "Further Adventures of Nils" in 1907. These two are usually combined into a single book called "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils", although that name could also describe the first book only. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the