Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate
by bawolff on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:50PM
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The definition of meta has changed over time. My understanding is it got the current "abstract" "thing aboout itself" definition long after the term "metaphysics" was coined, which probably originally meant "things we don't have a good name for but should probably file after the stuff about physics"
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Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate
by rnhmjoj on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:15PM
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Exactly, I believe the term comes from Aristotele's work "τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά", literally "the after the physics", which may have just had a very practical meaning: writings that come after the physics writings.