/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8137868
About the picture:

Pinocchio can't lie about the future. "My nose will grow now" is not a lie because you can't be sure about the future by Definition, otherwise it would be effectively the past to you. Again, your future is unknown to you by definition. To make it clear, let's ask ourselves: How does the spell work? (a) Does it know everything that happened, or (b) everything that happened and will happen, or (c) everything that Pinnocchio knows?

(a)Pinnocchio says: "Charlie Sheen smoked crack today", the spell checks if Sheen did smoke crack today, and responds accordingly. This means: Pinnocchio has a lot of power. He can ace tests, detect other people's lies and get information faster than light.
(b) Pinnocchio can predict the future, which is illogical: "I am going to eat this potato"
(c) Pinnocchio can lie as long as he is confused or confident, which isn't the case.

So (a) is the case. Things like "Charlie Sheen smoked crack today" are observable, because they are in the past, so Pinnocchio's nose can judge them, unlike the future.

About (b): free access to future information is Logically impossible: You can't learn that you will do something and then not do it

About(c): Is it a lie to pretend you know about the future? Yes. But can you talk about something without implying that you know it? Yes. ie: "My mom went out today", I haven't seen it but it turns out to be true, so it wasn't a lie. So we can't assume Pinnocchio is pretending to know the future just because he talks about it. This is an abstraction: Pinnocchio is alone talking to himself. We have ruled out (c) already so it is not about what Pinnocchio knows.

>>4956957
fine!
i'll have steak and fruit salad rather than cabbage and liver
double win!

>>4949106
>implying i always have to say the same thing
i dont think so, darling

>>2759638
doesn't even begin to compare to a real woman. and you know it.

>>2759642
then to be winning one must have kids, not just sex.
...so to be bi-winning, i guess you must have 2 kids...