Willard Van Orman Quine - Wikipedia 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
Quine, Willard Van Orman: Philosophy of Science | Internet . . . By rejecting any sharp distinction between analytic and synthetic truths, Quine is led to the further denial of any type of knowledge that is categorically distinct from that found in our system of empirical knowledge (for details, see Quine 1951; Hylton 2007, 48-80)
What does quine mean? - Definitions. net A quine is a computer program which 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, self-reproducing programs, and self-copying programs
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