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- noun A
language used to define, analyze, or describe ametalanguage .
Etymologies
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From meta- + metalanguage, by analogy with metalanguage (which from meta- + language).
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Examples
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Tarski does not prove this cumbersome fact in a metametalanguage, and he helpfully contents himself with showing how a few of the biconditionals would be established in the metalanguage.
Alfred Tarski Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006
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