metaknowledge
See also: meta-knowledge
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WOTD – 11 August 2015
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metaknowledge (usually uncountable, plural metaknowledges)
- (philosophy) Knowledge about knowledge itself.
- 2005, Nicholas Rescher, Epistemic Logic: A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge, →ISBN, p. 20 (Google preview):
- Metaknowledge is knowledge about knowledge […] The hallmark of metaknowledge is its being a matter of knowing propositions in which one K[nowledge]-operator occurs within the scope of another. Knowledge about someone's ignorance thus counts as metaknowledge.
- 2005, Nicholas Rescher, Epistemic Logic: A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge, →ISBN, p. 20 (Google preview):
- (psychology, artificial intelligence) Knowledge about types, domains, functions, or preconditions of knowledge.
- 1996, Reiko Hayashi, Cognition, Empathy & Interaction (Advances in Discourse Processes, Vol 54), →ISBN, p. 22 (Google preview):
- 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.
- 2004, Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, →ISBN, p. 67 (Google preview):
- Meta-knowledge is knowledge about how to acquire and exploit information, rather than basic knowledge about the world.
- 1996, Reiko Hayashi, Cognition, Empathy & Interaction (Advances in Discourse Processes, Vol 54), →ISBN, p. 22 (Google preview):
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