If Pinocchio said "My nose will grow", what would happen?

Due to the paradoxical nature of said situation, Pinocchio would become confunded lapsing into a state of perpetual recurrence, thus breaching the space-time continuum. Jiminy Cricket would call on the Blue Fairy to reverse the dilemma and Geppeto would chop him up for firewood in order to prevent the idiot boy from doing it again.

Nothing would happen. Pinocchio claiming that his nose "will grow" simply implies that in the future, he will tell a lie and his nose will grow. That's no lie.

Now, if you change the question to "What would happen if Pinocchio said, 'My nose will grow RIGHT NOW,'" then that's another story. It could be argued that with this statement, he isn't lying - he's just got it wrong. The intentional deceit of a lie is not there; he's simply incorrect. His nose WON'T grow, keeping his intentions truthful, but his statement false.

As zealot said, the nose will grow.

If it doesn't grow, its a lie and under what I assume are the rules of this game, we have a paradox.

If it does grow, he isn't lying, but its no breach of these fantasy rules. In a world where wooden boys talk and noses grow, a nose growing to avoid a paradox seems quite natural.

If given the choice between an obvious paradox and a silly, but "legal" option, go with the latter.

"What if Elmer Fudd beat Tiger Woods in the US Open?"

Why, that could not happen, since Elmer is not real. Not to mention, he is a poor golfer.

Pinocchio is not real. He is also a poor truth teller.

Thus, the puzzle refers to contradictory terms, and has null as the proper response. On two counts.

OR, his nose would have grown, since he knew he was lying and trying to trick the system.

The logic of elimination requires that if "My nose will not grow" is true, it will not, but "My nose will grow" is the contradiction, so any response must also be a contradiction, requiring that his nose would grow. There is no way it could not.

the nose knows

that been around for a long time, cause when you lie sometimes the ppl tend to cover their nose or that can be the only feature on your face that "cant" move when telling a lie so what ur saying makes alot of sense. that's where the nose knows and you spotted the lil trickery

Well i think first his nose will grow because he said a lie first & then when it does grow then it will become that hes rite which makes it go back down to original state & so i believe its in order, so do u understand?

By admitting the lie, the lie is corrected, and so the growing of the nose will be annihilated.

it would not grow. if he says my nose will (future tense) grow then he is saying that it will grow eventually and since we all tell lies than his nose will truly grow. So it would not grow.

The universe would implode on itself causing a massive black whole that would suck everything up in its destructive force... that is everything except cockroaches.

it would grow because he said it before it did..only if he said that again would his nose shrink