Thanks to Chana Messinger for discussing some of these topics with me. Any remaining errors in the post are society’s fault for raising me wrong, not Chana’s.
Note on the definitions: People use the word “meta” to refer to plenty of other things. If you’re in a meeting to discuss Clinton’s electability and someone raises a point of process, you might want to call that “meta” and distinguish it from “object-level” discussion of electability. When I define “meta”, I’m just clarifying terminology in the post itself, not insisting that other posts use “meta” to refer to the exact same things.
Thanks to Chana Messinger for discussing some of these topics with me. Any remaining errors in the post are society’s fault for raising me wrong, not Chana’s.
Note on the definitions: People use the word “meta” to refer to plenty of other things. If you’re in a meeting to discuss Clinton’s electability and someone raises a point of process, you might want to call that “meta” and distinguish it from “object-level” discussion of electability. When I define “meta”, I’m just clarifying terminology in the post itself, not insisting that other posts use “meta” to refer to the exact same things.