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- noun The
level ofdiscourse that concerns an object itself - noun A
medium -scale level
Etymologies
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One of the simplest of these was one of the motivations for my original excursions in the late sixties: the realization that assignments are a metalevel change from functions, and therefore should not be dealt with at the same level -- this was one of the motivations to encapsulate these kinds of state changes, and not let them be done willy nilly.
Multiplication is not repeated addition Bill Kerr 2009
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The term later returned to science at the metalevel, to describe developments within science itself (e.g., “the Copernican Revolution”).
Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009
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John R. Graham Director, Health Care Studies Pacific R.search Institute San Francisco At the metalevel, both providers and payers are systematically ensuring that the costs of health care continue to rise at rates far exceeding the rate of inflation.
A Dissection of Medical Insurance Costs, Benefits; Government's Role 2008
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Apparently, Bochvar's solution is not simply a gap solution, where the logic is weakened; instead, he formalizes the distinction between object level and metalevel in the logic itself.
Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic Cantini, Andrea 2007
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Brouwer emphasizes, as he had done in his dissertation, that formalism presupposes contentual mathematics at the metalevel.
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer van Atten, Mark 2005
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Meta-everything: Epistemic wisdom points to a developmental level in which the individual has a metalevel understanding of mental and communicative processes.
LearnHub Activities 2009
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