• JojoWakaki@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Oh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”

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      7 hours ago

      That depends on semantics.

      Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken?

      The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question

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          21 minutes ago

          I get that that’s the premise of the joke.
          But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg.

          The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”