{
  "id": "chicken-and-egg.stacked",
  "term": "chicken and egg",
  "sense": "stacked",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "domain": "everyday-idiom",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "Two things that each require the other to exist, making a wall that cannot be crossed by starting from either side alone.",
  "folk_gloss": "a situation where it's not clear which of two things came first",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "dependence.condition",
      "precedes.temporal",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "noun-phrase",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self-reinforcing loop",
      "circular requirement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "chicken and egg"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — stacked dependency"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chicken-and-egg.stacked"
}