Used in a Sentence

quine

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for quine.

Editorial note

It's just like a quine that uses stores some sort of numerical representation of itself as a byte array in the code.

Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of quine gathered in one view.

verb

To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.

noun

A surname from Manx.

verb

(philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quine.

verb

To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.

noun

A surname from Manx.

verb

(philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).

noun

(computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

Example sentences

1

It's just like a quine that uses stores some sort of numerical representation of itself as a byte array in the code.

2

If I find it again, there's a video of a quine deduced by a scheme interpreter relationally defined in minikanren.

3

I never wrote a quine, I guess that's why.

4

Well, it was the first quine I arrived at.

5

The argument was destroyed by Hume before it was even put forth, ridiculed by Nietzsche (BGE 11, a very entertaining passage), and then had all its foundations removed by Quine in Two Dogmas.

6

So everything in the quine needs to itself be printed, so that it can be "printed in the quine" by back reference.

7

Quine's paradox: "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

8

As stated in the article, this is an example of a veridical paradox under Quine's classification of paradoxes.

9

A true quine graph would have to include the "N" constant, too.

10

Quine (who never went by QuineQuine, more's the pity) had an answer to this problem: Differentiate between veridical and falsidical paradoxes.

11

Quine's NF [1] which allow universal sets, and other things like the set of all ordinals, that are forbidden in ZF-style set-theories.

12

And I think that's one of the problematic things about purely extensional logic advocated by philosophers like Quine.

Quote examples

1

So everything in the quine needs to itself be printed, so that it can be "printed in the quine" by back reference.

2

Quine's paradox: "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

3

A true quine graph would have to include the "N" constant, too.

4

"Holism" is an important notion, held even by stodgy professores like WVO Quine.

Proper noun examples

1

As stated in the article, this is an example of a veridical paradox under Quine's classification of paradoxes.

2

Quine (who never went by QuineQuine, more's the pity) had an answer to this problem: Differentiate between veridical and falsidical paradoxes.

3

Quine's NF [1] which allow universal sets, and other things like the set of all ordinals, that are forbidden in ZF-style set-theories.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use quine in a sentence?

It's just like a quine that uses stores some sort of numerical representation of itself as a byte array in the code.

What does quine mean?

To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.

What part of speech is quine?

quine is commonly used as verb, noun.