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+ | ====== The Fowl and the Egg ====== | ||
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+ | //An egg wench from 2980 BC attempting, foolishly, to solve the paradox. Little did she know she would be called a witch and burned at the stake for attempting such foolishness.// | ||
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+ | ===== Summary of the Paradox ===== | ||
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+ | The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" To ancient philosophers, | ||
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+ | ===== Tarvu' | ||
+ | It is commonly believed that Tarvu originally suggested the answer to this paradox as a joke and only after further speculation did he realize that the answer was no joke at all. This almost lead to the creation of another paradox, The Jester. Almost. | ||
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+ | Tarvu' | ||
+ | * A. What has wings, but cannot fly? Answer: A chicken (fowl). | ||
+ | * B. What will have wings, yet will never fly? Answer: An Egg (egg). | ||
+ | * Assuming A and B, then we must conclude that neither the egg nor the chicken will fly. | ||
+ | * Thus we have assumed the contrapositive and the premise is false. The chicken and the egg must therefore have arrived at the same time. | ||
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+ | ===== Fun Facts ===== | ||
+ | Tarvu used this paradox to escape the lair of the spider-mother and her broodlings in the [[tarvu_now|Tarvu -- Now!]] childrens' | ||