Quine may refer to:
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Quine (surname)
Quine is a Manx surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Dan Quine (born 1967) British computer scientist
*Don Quine (born 1938), American actor and writer, founder of Professional Karate Association
*Edgar Quine (born 1934), Manx poli ...
, people with the surname ''Quine''
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine (; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". ...
, the philosopher, or things named after him:
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Quine (computing), a program that produces its source code as output
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Quine–McCluskey algorithm
The Quine–McCluskey algorithm (QMC), also known as the method of prime implicants, is a method used for minimization of Boolean functions that was developed by Willard V. Quine in 1952 and extended by Edward J. McCluskey in 1956. As a genera ...
, an algorithm used for logic minimization
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Quine's paradox, in logic
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Duhem–Quine thesis
The Duhem–Quine thesis, also called the Duhem–Quine problem, after Pierre Duhem and Willard Van Orman Quine, is that in science it is impossible to experimentally test a scientific hypothesis in isolation, because an empirical test of the h ...
, in philosophy of science
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Quine–Putnam indispensability argument
The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument is an argument in the philosophy of mathematics for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, a position known as mathematical platonism. It was named after the phil ...
, in philosophy of mathematics
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