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Just so there's no confusion (lemmy.ml)

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[–] jojowakaki@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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."

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who introduced "chicken egg"? The original question just says egg.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

I've just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.