I’m surprise no one else came to this conclusion because I still hear people asking (if not rhetorically) this “philosophical” question.
This is not the first time I heard this conclusion, so it’s not like nobody else came to this conclusion.
It’s also wrong by important definitions of what it means to be an egg like for example EU regulations. By EU regulations an egg is “Egg: eggs in a shell — other than broken, incubated or cooked eggs — that are produced by the hen species Gallus gallus and are fit for human consumption or for the preparation of egg products.”
Webster also seems to define an egg by the species that produced it and not by what the egg produces.
Ontologically, there’s no problem with the EU definition where the thing that matters is that the egg is produced by Gallus gallus and not that a specismen of Gallus gallus gets created by the egg.
There are different conception of what it means to be an egg out there and the philosophic question of which of those conceptions you want to prefer over others is not resolved by pointing to Darwins theory of natural selection.
This is not the first time I heard this conclusion, so it’s not like nobody else came to this conclusion.
It’s also wrong by important definitions of what it means to be an egg like for example EU regulations. By EU regulations an egg is “Egg: eggs in a shell — other than broken, incubated or cooked eggs — that are produced by the hen species Gallus gallus and are fit for human consumption or for the preparation of egg products.”
Webster also seems to define an egg by the species that produced it and not by what the egg produces.
Ontologically, there’s no problem with the EU definition where the thing that matters is that the egg is produced by Gallus gallus and not that a specismen of Gallus gallus gets created by the egg.
There are different conception of what it means to be an egg out there and the philosophic question of which of those conceptions you want to prefer over others is not resolved by pointing to Darwins theory of natural selection.