Brainlet question here pls no bulli

I should also mention that english isnt my first language.
Anyway, what does "meta" mean? I hear it in metadata, metaphysics, /qa/ meta discussions, and i heard meta in some video games that ive played. I googled it and the explanation was shit, figured i might ask here

Nice science and math thread.

Saged, but holy hell that image lol

>metadiscussion: discussion about discussions
>metaphysics: the physics of physics
>metadata: data about data

Get it?

>metaphysics: the physics of physics
brainlet confirmed

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Meta is used extensively in science so yeah it is related
>saged
Cool, tell your friends about it
Finally an answer. Yeah i got it, its similar to implicity if im not mistaken? Anyway thanks

>its similar to implicity if im not mistaken

>its similar to implicity if im not mistaken

You retards are posting this cuz you cant prove me wrong. Stay virgins and math majors

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>its similar to implicity if im not mistaken

>same fagging this hard
Well done virgin

>cuz you cant prove me wrong
"Hurr durr P=NP you can't prove me wrong haha I'm right faggots"
Nice arguing, brainlet

>its similar to implicity if im not mistaken

Meta means "beyond" something

Thats cuz i am you're sore that you're probably a dumb math major who will end up as a hobo

Ding ding ding.

So much >Implying
So few evidence

You're a bad troll

Finally a REAL answer

this Often used in the sense of talking about the subject itself.

For example talking about a physics equation is not meta, whereas talking about scientific method would be more meta, talking about what constitutes an "observer" would delve into metaphysics.

Thats better, so when they say meta discussion, what do they mean?
Am i a bad troll? I seem to have generated an enormous amount of butthurt ITT

>so when they say meta discussion, what do they mean?
Instead of a discussion about the topic, you're having a discussion about discussion.
It's like pulling back a frame of reference or two.

now this is what I call meta

>I seem to have generated an enormous amount of butthurt ITT
What enormous amount of butthurt do you mean?
The only thing I am seeing is people making fun of (You) with brainlet memes and you namecalling everyone a virgin.
I don't see any butthurtness or great trolling in this.

in that context it means "a higher level"

if something is "meta" it's like a discussion of the thing itself, like a meta-discussion of Veeky Forums is talking about the board Veeky Forums itself, if a joke is meta, it is self-referential