Etymology
The term is derived from Greek word meta μετά ("after", "beyond", "with") and philosophía φιλοσοφία ("love of wisdom"). Morris Lazerowitz claims to have created the term around 1940 and used it in print in 1942. Earlier uses have been found in translations from the French.
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“The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.”
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