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en-wikipedia-org-8126		Meta - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1303	134	64	This article is about the word or prefix Meta. For information on the website for the coordination of all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, see Wikipedia:Meta. The use of the prefix in this sense occurs occasionally in scientific English terms derived from Greek. In epistemology, and often in common use, the prefix metais used to mean about (its own category). The earliest form of the word "meta" is the Mycenaean Greek me-ta, written in Linear B syllabic script.[4] The Greek preposition is cognate with the Old English preposition mid "with", still found as a prefix in midwife. Early use in English[edit] The book, which deals with self-reference and strange loops, and touches on Quine and his work, was influential in many computer-related subcultures and may be responsible for the popularity of the prefix, for its use as a solo term, and for the many recent coinages which use it.[7] Hofstadter uses meta as a stand-alone word, as an adjective and as a directional preposition ("going meta," a term he coins for the old rhetorical trick of taking a debate or analysis to another level of abstraction, as when somebody says "This debate isn't going anywhere").	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8126.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8126.txt