Tweetstorm in seven parts, wherein the author explains how a mistaken ancient metadata led to misunderstanding the term meta.
The Greek "μετά" is the source for "meta", but in Greek it doesn't mean abstracted - it means that which is after or beyond something else.
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The facile, ahistorical interpretation of the title "Metaphysics" is that meta means it is abstracted, i.e. beyond reality, describing it.
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That's wrong. In fact, it comes from a misreading of an editor's non-title of a collection of Aristotle's writings on "First Philosophy."
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