• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    I fool-proofed the question…“Which came first, the egg of a chicken, or the chicken?”. And you can’t say they use eggs in dinosaur shaped pasta. /s

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      9 hours ago

      In that case the chicken came first, regardless of how we define “chicken”, we can reuse that definition for the first “chicken egg” it laid.

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        3 hours ago

        But how do we define a “chicken egg”? Is it an egg containing a chicken, or an egg that’s been laid by a chicken?

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          32 minutes ago

          Good point. Now I’m less sure.

          I guess any “egg containing a chicken” came first, by definition. I don’t think I would accept anything that didn’t come from an egg as my canonical first chicken, anyway.