A computer program whose output is its own source code is called a "quine" after Quine. This usage was introduced by Douglas Hofstadter in his 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

Apr 9, 2010 · Quine is often said to put forward an “indispensability argument” (sometimes known as “the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument”) for the existence of mathematical entities.

Willard Van Orman Quine, American logician and philosopher, widely considered one of the dominant figures in Anglo-American philosophy in the last half of the 20th century.

Home page for Willard Van Orman Quine, mathematician and philosopher including list of books, articles, essays, students, and travels. Includes links to other Willard Van Orman Quine Internet …

And thus Quine writes: “The problem of analyticity confronts us anew” (Quine, 1980: 22). To tackle the notion of analyticity, Quine makes a distinction between two kinds of analytic claims, those …

Oct 14, 2025 · A Quine is a program that prints its own code. Quines exist for any programming language that is Turing complete and it is a common challenge for students to come up with a Quine …

May 27, 2025 · Quine's most famous work, 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism,' was first published in 1951. In it, he challenged two fundamental assumptions of logical empiricism: the analytic-synthetic distinction …

Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American logicians and …

A quine is a fixed point of an execution environment, when that environment is viewed as a function transforming programs into their outputs. Quines are possible in any Turing-complete programming …

In Word and Object, Quine’s most famous book, he argues in favor of (1) naturalizing epistemology, (2) physicalism as against phenomenalism and mind –body dualism, and (3) extensionality as against …