|med. ə l|äjik, -d.ə|lä- noun
Etymology: Medieval Latin Metalogicus, title of a work on logic by John of Salisbury died 1180 English ecclesiastical leader and classical scholar
: a branch of analytic philosophy that deals with the critical examination of the basic concepts of logic abstracted from any meaning given them in the systems studied
the metalogic which grounds or justifies the logical system as a whole — R.L.Barber