Chicken-or-egg

What is Chicken-or-egg?


1.

A question of cause-and-effect or sequence of actions, possibly unanswerable.

From the eternal question "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Did an earthquake cause the mine collapse, or was the collapse itself registered as the quake? This could be a chicken-or-egg problem.

See effect, chicken, egg, enigma, paradox


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