More Meta Than Thou
There's nothing wrong with modeling; in systems research we do this
all the time. Meta-modeling is more of the same: using a formal
system to reason about a model. And so on. How many metas are
useful? Probably not very many (zero? one?) but these Google results
from 1/1/2004 hint at what people are thinking:
meta-model 141000
meta-meta-model 1840
meta-meta-meta-model 41
meta-meta-meta-meta-model 3
meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-model 1
The search result for meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-model points to this
page. The three instances of meta-meta-meta-meta-model are also false
positives: two caused by Google's flaky indexing of PDF documents and
one pointing to this page, so it's probably safe to assume that at
present the meta-meta-meta-modelers are the lunatic fringe...
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