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minus-squarechristophski@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109·4 days agoThe chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 days 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-up24·4 days agoUntil a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·4 days 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-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoDo you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoIt would be a chicken’s non-chicken egg
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days 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-down1·4 days 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
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.
Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
It would be a chicken’s non-chicken egg
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?
Correct!
That is a linguistical question. What does “chicken” in “chicken egg” mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?