chicken-or-egg question

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chicken-or-egg question (plural chicken-or-egg questions)

  1. (logic, philosophy) A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first.
  2. (by extension) A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first.

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