A metaprime example is something that IS an example of itself in a self-referential way. Metaprime examples can be words themselves, or names, or names of things, or things themselves. Metaprime examples can be ideas or objects, abstract or literal, metalanguage or existential. They can be intentional or un. Sometimes they make you laugh, and usually they make you dizzy if you think about them too long!
Itis not this Latin phrase,per se, that is important, but rather the concept it represents.Per seis handy when you need to single out a particular element of a bigger thing. So you might say, "The song,per se, wasn't a bad choice; it was your singing voice that was atrocious." In Latin itmeans "by itself."
