cm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours agoJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1692
arrow-up1692imageJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlcm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoThat 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
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoWho introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoI 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?”
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 minutes agoI’ve just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.
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
Who introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
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?”
I’ve just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.