• MapleEngineer@lemmy.caOPM
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      1 year ago

      Aristotle said that an egg was a potential chicken and a chicken was an actual chicken and since potentiality preceded actuality the egg came first.

      All chickens come from eggs but not all eggs come from chickens. The first chicken came out of an egg but the first egg didn’t come out of a chicken.