Get to know Quine better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like philosopher or logician.
Quine meaning
A program that produces its own source code as output.
Synonyms of Quine
Using Quine
- The main meaning on this page is: A program that produces its own source code as output.
- Useful related words include: w. v. quine, philosopher, logician, logistician.
- In the example corpus, quine often appears in combinations such as: of quine, quine and, for quine.
Context around Quine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quine
- In this selection, "quine" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gumley, reversed, following, 1962, actually and invoke stand out and add context to how "quine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a quine is a and a quine s output. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quine" sits close to words such as abdicate, adapters and adores, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Guitarist Robert Quine was his nephew. (6 words)
A fourth kind has sometimes been described since Quine's work. (11 words)
A quine's output is exactly the same as its source code. (12 words)
The height o’ sophistimacated modernity fan Mary Berry wis a quine, it squats in the corner o’ her scullery fizzing and popping, wi’ a cathode ray tube the size o’ a Fiat Panda, and dial for manually changing the channels ye need twa hands tae turn. (46 words)
During World War II, Quine lectured on logic in Brazil, in Portuguese, and served in the United States Navy in a military intelligence role, deciphering messages from German submarines, and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. (36 words)
Gumley-Quine actually scored the Lions next try after receiving the ball from a scrum win and busting through some feebly defence and running 60 metres untouched to extend Gerringong's lead to 10-0. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Quine's classification seeAlso W. V. Quine (1962) distinguished between three classes of paradoxes: citation * A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nevertheless.
Version for Quine's New Foundations The above proof fails for W. V. Quine 's " New Foundations " set theory (NF).
Gumley-Quine actually scored the Lions next try after receiving the ball from a scrum win and busting through some feebly defence and running 60 metres untouched to extend Gerringong's lead to 10-0.
The height o’ sophistimacated modernity fan Mary Berry wis a quine, it squats in the corner o’ her scullery fizzing and popping, wi’ a cathode ray tube the size o’ a Fiat Panda, and dial for manually changing the channels ye need twa hands tae turn.
Carlson’s research primarily concerns related issues in epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy, particularly Frege, Carnap, and Quine.
Quine’s mural work is all over Cleveland, notably the “Dream Big” mural in Gordon Square and the mural in Eliot’s Bar in the downtown Hilton Hotel.
A closely related concept is hold more stubbornly at least, also popularized by Quine.
A fourth kind has sometimes been described since Quine's work.
A quine is a fixed point of an execution environment, when the execution environment is viewed as a function.
A quine's output is exactly the same as its source code.
Both Putnam and Quine invoke naturalism to justify the exclusion of all non-scientific entities, and hence to defend the "only" part of "all and only".
Bryan Magee 1973: Popper (Modern Masters series) The Quine-Duhem thesis argues that it's impossible to test a single hypothesis on its own, since each one comes as part of an environment of theories.
During World War II, Quine lectured on logic in Brazil, in Portuguese, and served in the United States Navy in a military intelligence role, deciphering messages from German submarines, and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.
Fictionalism Fictionalism in mathematics was brought to fame in 1980 when Hartry Field published Science Without Numbers, which rejected and in fact reversed Quine's indispensability argument.
Following Quine, Baker states that a theory, T, is ontologically committed to items F if and only if T entails that F′s exist.
For a comprehensive treatment of predicate functor logic and its history, see Quine (1976).
For an elegant introduction to the parsimony of Quine's approach to logic, see his "New Foundations for Mathematical Logic," ch. 5 in his From a Logical Point of View.
For a philosophy of mathematics that attempts to overcome some of the shortcomings of Quine and Gödel's approaches by taking aspects of each see Penelope Maddy 's Realism in Mathematics.
For Quine, scientific thought forms a coherent web in which any part could be altered in the light of empirical evidence, and in which no empirical evidence could force the revision of a given part.
Guitarist Robert Quine was his nephew.
Common combinations with quine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: