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.”

CEFR level