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Swift knows something (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken

[–] stoy 25 points 5 days ago

Correct!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken's egg.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

It would be a chicken's non-chicken egg

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Schroedinger's egg

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

That is a linguistical question. What does "chicken" in "chicken egg" mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?