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StevenWaterman11/07/20240 repliesview on HN

If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, the chicken came first

If a chicken egg is an egg that hatches into a chicken, the egg came first.

We know that the first case is correct because an unfertilised egg laid by a chicken is called a chicken egg despite by definition not hatching into a chicken.

Therefore the chicken came first