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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Who introduced "chicken egg"? The original question just says egg.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

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?"

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I've just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.

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[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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