metaknowledge

plural metaknowledges · alternative meta-knowledge

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

   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, page 20 (Google preview)

2. uncountableusuallyartificial intelligencehuman sciencesKnowledge about types, domains, functions, or preconditions of knowledge.

   Meta-knowledge is knowledge about how to acquire and exploit information, rather than basic knowledge about the world.

   2004, Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, →ISBN, page 67 (Google preview)

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   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.

   1996, Reiko Hayashi, “Cognition, Empathy & Interaction”, in Advances in Discourse Processes, volume 54, →ISBN, page 22 (Google preview)