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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
Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?