quine

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  1. A dialectal (Scotch) form of quean.
  2. A quince.
  3. An obsolete dialectal form of whence.

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  • Finally, Part 4 argues that Anselm looked at his single argument in the Boethian framework and that the term "that than which a greater cannot be thought" should be identified as his single argument. aristotle gadamer heidegger kant mathematics phenomenology philosophy pragmatism quine schelling CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Aristotles Categories aristotle gadamer heidegger kant mathematics phenomenology philosophy pragmatism quine schelling CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • A '' 'quine' '' is a computer program which produces its own source code. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • A quine is a computer program which produces its own source code. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The theory is closely related to the theory of writing quines that I used for my three language quine. —  Planet Haskell
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  1. from Middle English quyne, coine, coin, from Old French coin, French coing = Provencal codoing, masculine, = Italian cotogna, feminine, a quince, from Latin Cydonium, Cydoneum (sc. malum), from Greek Κυδώνιον (sc. μῆλον), a quince, literally ‘apple of Cydonia, from Κνδωνία, Κνδωνίς, Cydonia, an ancient Greek city of Crete: see Cydonia. Cf. quince, quiddany.
 

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