Meaning of chicken or egg | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The dynamically naive would be worrying about the "chicken or egg" of this causal process.”

“What is suggestive about both positions, for present purposes, is that modernism and the avant-garde are understood as belonging to a common history of supersession. The differences between them consist not in the sequencing itself, so much as in the evaluation respectively of the chicken or egg of modernism and the avant-garde (or the reverse) in a continuous process of renewal and stability.”

“This is likely a recursive, two-way relationship—the “chicken or egg” of institutions and development referred to previously.”

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