[Sigia-l] "meta-"navigation

Boniface Lau boniface_lau at compuserve.com
Mon Jun 6 22:25:44 EDT 2005


> From: Thomas Quine
>  
> For example, Aristotle's "Metaphysics" were the works he wrote *after*
> he wrote the "Physics". Its subject matter was all those things "above
> and beyond" the physical world, hence a later historian called these
> works the Metaphysics.
> 
> Viewed from this angle, meta-navigation might be seen as referring
> to all navigation through content that is "above and beyond"
> content, 

But you've made a mistake in applying the meaning of "meta". 

The meaning of "meta" should be applied to the word being prefixed
with "meta". For example, in the term "metaphysics", the prefixed word
is "physics". Thus, metaphysics means "above and beyond physics".

For the term "meta-navigation", the prefixed word is "navigation".
Thus, meta-navigation means "above and beyond navigation", not
"navigation through the above and beyond content".


Boniface




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