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That Plato's Forms are made to look like a plurality of Parmenidean Beings might seem to supply Platonic authority for the meta-principle interpretation.

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  1. In Roman antiquity, a conical column or post, or, usually, a group of three such posts, at each end of the spina of a circus, serving to mark the place of turning; a turning-post. On the other side of the figure of the queen-goddess is a tall hippodrome meta, enriched with garlands of flowers—probably having reference to the sacred contests at the founding of a new city. The Academy, June 15, 1889, p. 417.

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  • Her analysis of the series as a meta-novel should be very helpful to writers planning (or in the process of creating) a series. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • That Plato's Forms are made to look like a plurality of Parmenidean Beings might seem to supply Platonic authority for the meta-principle interpretation. —  Parmenides
  • Another beef with filing/tagging is that that when your tag list gets long, the meta is actually more cumbersome than the data it†™ s supposed to organize. —  Tag Your Desktop Stuff With Tag2Find
  • The philosophical focus thus construes Daoism as a meta-level challenge to Confucianism, while the religious focus tends to treat it as a sibling — with similar emphasis on cultivation, direct intuition, sages and a prosaic interest only in guilelessly asserting their alternative first-order normative dao. —  Taoism
  • ... —  Hell Wings Over Manhattan
 

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