• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Yes, but is a chicken egg one that’s laid by a chicken, or one that hatches the chicken? The answer to that question affects the answer to which came first

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      It’s one that hatches a chicken. An egg layed by a chicken is a chicken*'s* egg. If a chicken doesn’t come out of it, it ain’t a chicken egg.

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      It’s one that contains a chicken:

      A chocolate egg is an egg that contains chocolate, not one that is laid by chocolate.

      QED

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      There was never any point where a non-chicken laid an egg that hatched into a chicken. Evolution doesn’t care about our categories, just as the rainbow doesn’t care about our colour words!