It's all relative.
We only know something to be something if it's given a name and one can categorize it within it's category.
If I know it to be a chicken and it has the qualities of chicken it therefore must be a chicken.
If I know it to be an egg and it has the qualities of the egg it therefore must be an egg.
Because we are egocentric man if we identify something, label it, categorize it, and familiarize it, it therefore is something.
When we are absent we might say it doesn't exist. ( We are that arrogant!)
So, if we can go back in time, look at linguistics, decide if man figured out if a chicken or egg was identified first in language, we have an answer.
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