METATHEORY


Meaning of METATHEORY in English

“+ noun

Etymology: meta- + theory

: a theory concerned with the investigation, analysis, or description of theory itself

if we investigate, analyze, and describe a language L 1 … the sum total of what can be known about L 1 and said in L 2 may be called the metatheory of L 1 — Rudolf Carnap

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