chicken-and-egg problem
Circular causation dilemma
A chicken-and-egg problem is a situation where two things each seem to depend on the other existing first, making it unclear where to begin or which caused which.
The name comes from the ancient paradox of whether the chicken or the egg came first.
We face a chicken-and-egg problem: you need experience to get hired, but you need to get hired to gain experience.
The phrase often describes circular dependencies in business, technology, or logic where neither element can exist without the other already being in place.
- originsPoints where things start
- starting pointPlace of commencement
- eggReproductive cell in shell
- causalityCause-effect connection
- circular reasoningFallacy assuming its conclusion
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chicken-and-egg problemroot cause
Fundamental origin of problem
causal chain · first cause · domino effect · prime mover · origin point
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