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The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as the question, "which came first: the chicken or the egg?" The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. "Chicken-and-egg" is a metaphoric adjective describing situations where it is not clear which of two events should be considered the cause and which should be considered the effect, to express a scenario of infinite regress, or to express the difficulty of sequencing actions where each seems to depend on others being done first. Plutarch posed the question as a philosophical matter in his essay "The Symposiacs", written in the 1st century CE.
See also
- Bootstrapping (compilers), the solution to an analogous problem in computer science
- Catch-22
- Sorites paradox
References
- "Essays and Miscellanies, by Plutarch". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- O'Brien, Carl Séan (2015). The Demiurge in Ancient Thought. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-107-07536-8.
Further reading
- Experts apply new technique to crack egg shell problem 12 July 2010 Freeman, Colin L.; Harding, John H.; Quigley, David; Rodger, P. Mark (2010). "Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by an Eggshell Protein". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49 (30): 5135–5137. doi:10.1002/anie.201000679. PMID 20540126.