cm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agoJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlimagemessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1880cross-posted to: funny@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1880imageJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlcm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agomessage-square115fedilinkcross-posted to: funny@lemmy.ml
minus-squareJojoWakaki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 days agoOh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days 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-up7·5 days agoWho introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days 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-up1·5 days agoI’ve just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.
minus-squarebeejboytyson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoFor sure just look at the framing, chicken egg = chicken. But since we’re in the future we know chicken egg does not mean a chicken laid it.
Oh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”
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.
For sure just look at the framing, chicken egg = chicken. But since we’re in the future we know chicken egg does not mean a chicken laid it.