We saw Edward Wilson’s successful or at least well-publicized revival (2002) of a then-obsolescent term, consilience. Additionally (in 1981, thus actually with priority), population-biologist A.R. Templeton coined transilience, a sort of, as its name implies, a pretty amazing transcendent cool thing, which somehow, like, flies in the face of natural selection, and does cool stuff in amazing ways; the details are for our purposes unimportant.
At this point, I realized I’d better get into the act, and coin a similar term of my own. Since I already enjoyed a certain brief notoriety on the subject of meta, the choice is obvious:
metasilience
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Just what it might mean is t.b.d. and will be revealed at a later date.
Already in the works are such ground-breaking, butt-kicking articles as:
=> Metasilience and the Monostich
=> Adventures in Metasilience
=> Metasilience: Marvel or Menace ?
=> Metasilient Connections on Banach Space
=> Why Choose Metasilience
=> Chomsky’s Conversion to Metasilience Shocks the Scholarly World
=> How I Mastered Metasilience and Achieved More Satisfying Climaxes
=> Metasilience and YOU (K-8)
Once public passion has reached fever-pitch, I then may auction off this splendid word, the way domain-names are sold.
Bidding begins at a million. Swiss francs only, please.
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