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minus-squarechristophski@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109·1 year agoThe chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoI had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken’s egg.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 year agoUntil a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoSee, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken’s egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a “something else” egg.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoIt would be a chicken’s non-chicken egg
minus-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoDo you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoIs a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?
minus-squareTartas1995@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoThat is a linguistical question. What does “chicken” in “chicken egg” mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?
The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken
Correct!
I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken’s egg.
Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken
See, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken’s egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a “something else” egg.
It would be a chicken’s non-chicken egg
Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
Schroedinger’s egg
Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?
That is a linguistical question. What does “chicken” in “chicken egg” mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?