• GiveOver@feddit.uk
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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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      31 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.