Tweetstorm in seven parts, wherein the author explains how a mistaken ancient metadata led to misunderstanding the term meta.
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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The non-title was "Metaphysics" - the book after physics. Ironically, it's philosophy concerning that which is not abstracted from reality.
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Of course, a title is meta-data about a book, as is position in a sequence. So the confusion came from confusing which metadata was which.
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