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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish67•7 hours agoThe chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•7 hours 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•7 hours agoUntil a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•7 hours 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 hours agoDo you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
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
Schroedinger’s egg
Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.