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The attribute of "chickenness" is a sorites paradox. So even if you allow the interpretation of "egg which will become chicken" vs "egg laid by a chicken" (whic
by kortex 5y ago
The attribute of "chickenness" is a sorites paradox. So even if you allow the interpretation of "egg which will become chicken" vs "egg laid by a chicken" (which is quite clever, I hadnt encountered that) you are still stuck with marginal difference between mother and child/egg in overall "chickenicity."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
- cogman10 5y agoFun take and it really points to one of the problems of making species distinctions. The very nature of evolution on macro organisms is very gradual changes. Reminds me of the futurama joke around the "missing link"[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICv6GLwt1gM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICv6GLwt1gM
- mbg721 5y agoChickens are a fun example to use here, given the culinary cliche that unfamiliar meats taste to varying degrees "kind of like chicken". So I guess any individual chicken would be very close in flavor to the Standard Chicken, whichever one that is.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> even if you allow the interpretation of "egg which will become chicken" vs "egg laid by a chicken" (which is quite clever, I hadnt encountered that) you are still stuck with marginal difference between mother and child/egg in overall "chickenicity." But that has no effect on the answer to the question. Given the definition, it is not necessary to identify the first chicken in order to know whether that first chicken hatched from the first chicken egg (definition 1) or laid it (definition 2).