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Brilliant-Elk-7291 t1_irgi8hs wrote

Good article.

I believe the answer to be the chicken egg. The very precise point of evolution where a life form became a chicken surely did not happen during a chickens lifetime, but when the chicken is being made - in the egg.

Therefore the egg containing the first chicken must have came first, if it was to be the chicken that came first then the evolutionary process of developing the chicken must have happened to the chicken while it was alive. This couldn’t have happened.

This is all due to my knowledge of evolution and reproduction. Which is incredibly close to absolute zero fyi.

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SilasTheSavage OP t1_irmln20 wrote

Thank you, and happy cake day. I think that if you want to hold that chicken and egg can constitute propositions, then that is a good response. It seems plausible that chicken would be defined in terms of genetics, and since that is unchanged from egg to chicken, the egg came first.

But I of course take the semantic nihilist approach regardless.

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