Contextualizebeta

metaknowledge

noun
/ˈmɛtəˌnɒlɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From meta- + knowledge.

  1. inherited from knowleche
  2. prefixed as metaknowledge — “meta + knowledge”

Definitions

  1. Knowledge about knowledge itself (for example, epistemologic awareness).

  2. Knowledge about types, domains, functions, or preconditions of knowledge.

    • The acts of monitoring, hypothesizing, and verifying are internal work which require a person's metaknowledge or knowledge concerning what kind of knowledge is needed and how that knowledge is appropriately used in the situation.
    • Meta-knowledge is knowledge about how to acquire and exploit information, rather than basic knowledge about the world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metaknowledge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA