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The chicken/egg problem is really a problem of a too narrow scope.
"What came first the chicken or the egg?"
The answer is obviously the egg as plenty of other species before chickens laid eggs.
The concept of an egg is far older than the concept of the chicken.
It's implicit that the question is about a chicken egg, specifically.
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
Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.
Schroedinger's egg
Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?
That is a linguistical question. What does "chicken" in "chicken egg" mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?
IIRC modern chickens have DNA from 3 species of Jungle Fowl, so yes, it was an egg from a not quite chicken fertilized by a Jungle Fowl.