Quine may refer to:
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Quine (computing)
A quine is a computer program that takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. The standard terms for these programs in the computability theory and computer science literature are "self-replicating programs", "s ...
, a program that produces its source code as output
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Quine's paradox
Quine's paradox is a paradox concerning truth values, stated by Willard Van Orman Quine. It is related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports to show that a sentence can be paradoxical even if it is not self-referring and does not use ...
, in logic
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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 p ...
, people with the surname
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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" ...
(1908–2000), American philosopher and logician
See also
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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 gener ...
, an algorithm used for logic minimization
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Duhem–Quine thesis
In philosophy of science, the Duhem–Quine thesis, also called the Duhem–Quine problem, says that unambiguous falsifications of a scientific hypothesis are impossible, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires one or more back ...
or Duhem–Quine problem, 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 and concrete, abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, a position known as mathematical platonism. It was ...
, in the philosophy of mathematics
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