[Peace-discuss] FaceBook / Meta

[Szoke, Ron]

META-
1. a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “along with,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model: metacarpus; metalinguistics.

> [ 2. meanings in chemistry omitted. ] 
 
Also, esp. before a vowel, met-.
[< Greek, prefix and preposition]
	— online dictionary

1. a. Later in time: metestrus.
b. At a later stage of development: metanephros.
2. Situated behind: metacarpus.
3. a. Change; transformation: metachromatism.
b. Alternation: metagenesis.
4. a. More comprehensive: meta-analysis.
b. Describing or showing an awareness of the activity that is taking place or being discussed; self-referential: metafiction.
c. At a higher state of development: metazoan.
5. Having undergone metamorphosis: metasomatic.
[meanings in chemistry omitted ] 

=> Noteworthy:  
A book by Aristotle is titled “Metaphysics,” meaning that ancient editors decided that it properly comes after or in addition to the “Physics,” which is Aristotle’s philosophy of nature or natural history/philosophy.  
> cp. meta-analysis, an analysis or interpretive account of the results of a number of previous experiments or analyses.  
> metalanguage: the language used to talk about another language.
This is sometimes needed to avoid the paradoxes of self-reference —  e.g. “This statement is false”: if true, then it is false, & if false, then true.  
> The new name (as of today) of the computer program formerly referred to as “FaceBook.” 
	~ RSz. 102821
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