metasciencen.
/ˈmɛtəˌsʌɪəns/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəˌsaɪəns/ Inquiry into the methodology and philosophical implications of scientific investigation.
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1938 C. W. Morris in Internat. Encycl. Unified Sci. I. i. 69 We may introduce the term ‘metascience’ as a synonym for ‘the science of science’.
1953 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 44 52 [Scientific] problems are periodically discarded..because they are intrusions from ‘meta-science’ and depend, therefore, upon emotional bias for working solutions.
1975 Jrnl. Philos. 72 72 Science..must precede metascience.
1992 Sci. Amer. Nov. 20/3 The function of falsifiability is to say whether a theory is scientific or not. My theory of falsifiability is certainly not scientific. It belongs to metascience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- up the wazoo
- up the wind
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- up to one's ass
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- up to one's etc in alligators
- up to one's eyeballs