Meta- (from the Greek. Μετά- “between, after, through”) is a part of complex words, denoting abstraction , generalization, intermediateness, following something, transition to something else, state change, transformation (for example, metagalaxy , metacenter ).
In ancient Greek, the preposition μετά (metá) and the prefix μετα- have the meanings: “after”, “next”, “after”, and also “through”, “between”.
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Chemistry
In chemistry, the prefix meta is used to refer to chemicals that are different in composition and chemical isomers .
In organic chemistry, meta is used along with ortho and para prefixes to denote the position of two identical or different substituents in the benzene ring.
In inorganic chemistry, the meta- prefix is used along with the ortho prefix in the names of the forms of acids , differing in the number of water molecules they contain ( ortho -the largest, the meta -smallest). For example, orthophosphoric H 3 PO 4 and metaphosphoric HPO 3 acids.
Epistemology and Humanities
In epistemology, the prefix " meta " means " about yourself ." For example, metadata is data about the data (who issues it, when, what data format is used, etc.). Similarly, in psychology means an intuition of a person about whether she can remember something if she concentrates on remembering. Any discipline has a metatheory that is theoretical considerations about its fundamentals and methods.
Features of etymology
The Alexandrian philosopher Peripatetic Andronicus of Rhodes (I century BC), in his published collected works of Aristotle, titled " τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά " (literally "what after physics") a group of texts that he placed after his treatises on physics .
Aristotle himself called the science set forth in these articles, the "first philosophy", the "science of the deity", or simply "wisdom." He called the essay on this discipline “On Essence” or “ On Existence and Essence ”
Subsequently, the name "metaphysics" began to be applied to the most general part of philosophy , to the teachings on higher principles of knowledge ( ontology ), on God , on the origin of the world, on the immortality of the soul and free will.
Metaphysics describes the principles on which physics is based, is a higher level science in relation to it.
This generalization is passed to the prefix meta .
See also
- Metalanguage
- Metaetics
- Metalogika
- Metaphysics
- Metapsychology
- Metadata