Metasophically

Meaning metaphorically and philosophically.

When raising a glass filled with alcohol to make a speech for CJ’s wedding. “We raise our glasses metasophically!”

by Scherbrosky December 2, 2025

Atticus Moats

A man who will stick his dick into any holes he can find, including his own

“Damn that tree looking thick af” -Atticus Moats

by Alexmoreno August 23, 2018

The Moatside welcome

It's been a good night at Jimmies, you have scored and after a phat pizza base trip you are both heading back to your place.

Unfortunately you live in moatside (curtasy of Graham 'the wet' towel).
After assuring your pull that you are not trying to mug them in the alleyway and wadeing through the trash of a tipped bin (so romantic) you head to get into your 'room' which is more like a fucking shoebox.

'mind the mould' you say in a sexy voice as you both climb over your pile of laundry as there is nowhere else to put it. You can see the disgust on their face.

Nevertheless you persist and get into it. It's a bit of a squeeze in your hobbit sized bed and thus spend more time falling out onto the sticky floor that hasn't been cleaned (thanks to the uni cutting costs for some new bloody college).

It all ends in an orgasmic climax. Not from you, not from your pull, but instead you room dumps it's load that been building up in the walls on you. Drenching everything in mouldy quagmire.

You pull quickly runs away.
Maybe you'll have more luck in Klute tomorrow. They are known to like it a bit more dirty

You can only have the Moatside welcome if you have been in it, or it has been in you

by A3457 April 1, 2020

Cognitive Metasciences

A broader, more theoretical category encompassing fields that take the entire project of cognitive science—the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence—as their object of critique and analysis. This includes questioning the computational metaphor of the mind, the limits of artificial intelligence as a model for human thought, and the cultural assumptions built into our models of intelligence. It's cognitive science reflecting on its own foundational metaphors.

Cognitive Metasciences Example: Critiquing the dominant paradigm in AI research for assuming that intelligence is purely information processing, while ignoring the role of embodied experience, emotion, and social interaction, is an exercise in Cognitive Metascience. It asks if the field is solving the right puzzle, or just the one that fits its preferred tools.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Human Metasciences

The systematic study of the human sciences themselves—a second-order discipline that takes history, philosophy, literature, arts, and humanities as its objects of inquiry. Human metasciences ask meta-level questions about humanistic knowledge: How do humanists know what they claim to know? What methods do different humanistic disciplines use? How does humanistic knowledge change over time? How do social, cultural, and institutional contexts shape humanistic inquiry? What are the limits of humanistic understanding? Human metasciences are the humanities reflecting on themselves—the attempt to understand what the humanities are, what they can achieve, and how they relate to other forms of knowledge. They're essential for humanities to be self-aware rather than merely traditional, for humanists to understand their own practices rather than just practicing them.

Example: "Her human metasciences work examined how the discipline of history has changed over the past century—not just what historians study, but how they study it, what they count as evidence, how they argue. History studying itself reveals its own contingency and its own progress."

by Abzugal March 16, 2026

Social Metasciences

The systematic study of the social sciences themselves—a second-order discipline that takes sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and related fields as its objects of inquiry. Social metasciences ask meta-level questions about social scientific knowledge: How do social scientists know what they claim to know? What methods do different social science disciplines use? How does social scientific knowledge change over time? How do social, cultural, and institutional contexts shape social science? What are the limits of social scientific understanding? Social metasciences are the social sciences reflecting on themselves—the attempt to understand what social science is, what it can achieve, and how it relates to other forms of knowledge. They're essential for social science to be self-aware rather than merely empirical, for social scientists to understand their own practices rather than just practicing them.

Example: "His social metasciences research examined how the replication crisis has transformed psychology—not just by correcting specific findings, but by forcing the discipline to reflect on its own methods, assumptions, and institutions. Crisis becomes self-understanding."

by Abzugal March 16, 2026

Cognitive Metasciences

The systematic study of the cognitive sciences themselves—a second-order discipline that takes psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and related fields as its objects of inquiry. Cognitive metasciences ask meta-level questions about cognitive scientific knowledge: How do cognitive scientists know what they claim to know? What methods do different cognitive science disciplines use? How does cognitive scientific knowledge change over time? How do social, cultural, and institutional contexts shape cognitive science? What are the limits of cognitive scientific understanding? Cognitive metasciences are the cognitive sciences reflecting on themselves—the attempt to understand what cognitive science is, what it can achieve, and how it relates to other forms of knowledge. They're essential for cognitive science to be self-aware rather than merely productive, for cognitive scientists to understand their own practices rather than just practicing them.

Example: "Her cognitive metasciences research examined how the dominance of fMRI has shaped what questions get asked in neuroscience—not because other questions aren't important, but because the tool creates a field of visibility that attracts attention and funding. The science studying itself reveals its own biases."

by Abzugal March 16, 2026