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The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". When used in reference to difficult problems, a chicken and egg problem is similar to a Catch 22 situation where something cannot happen until a second thing does, and the second thing cannot happen until the first does. For example, a person might have trouble finding a job without work experience, but to get work experience he/she must get a job.

The earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..."

2006-08-03 01:59:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the chicken the egg came from the chook

2006-08-03 04:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

egg come first before chicken

2006-08-03 04:25:13 · answer #3 · answered by mary j 1 · 0 0

By following the evolution process you can know it exploring the knowledge of the emerge of first life on earth.

2006-08-03 04:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by Lutfor 3 · 0 0

The dinosaur came first, hence chicken still retain reptilian skin i.e. scales.

2006-08-03 04:27:02 · answer #5 · answered by J9 6 · 0 0

it was actually a bird simillar to a chicken that had the dna or whatever to evolve into a chicken like creature

2006-08-03 04:25:16 · answer #6 · answered by ladysunshineau 4 · 0 0

the egg was first duhh....remember...you had it for breakfast and the chicken was for dinner

2006-08-03 04:24:51 · answer #7 · answered by GUNN3R17 4 · 0 0

God created chikens so that they could create eggs :-)

2006-08-03 04:25:19 · answer #8 · answered by < Roger That > 5 · 0 0

none! pig came first!

2006-08-03 04:29:21 · answer #9 · answered by yen12rs 3 · 0 0

what comes first??? ofcourse sperm!

2006-08-03 04:25:37 · answer #10 · answered by disaztershobz 2 · 0 0

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