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meta-knowledge

meta-knowledge is the alternative spelling of metaknowledge.

Meaning of metaknowledge

Noun

metaknowledge (usually uncountable, plural metaknowledges)

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

Forms of meta-knowledge

pluralmeta-knowledges

Questions about meta-knowledge

What is meta-knowledge the alternative spelling of?
Meta-knowledge is the alternative spelling of metaknowledge.

Words near meta-knowledge in the dictionary

  1. meta-induction
  2. meta-inductive
  3. meta-inductivist
  4. meta-inductivists
  5. meta-irony
  6. meta-knowledge
  7. meta-knowledges
  8. meta-level
  9. meta-model
  10. meta-models
  11. meta-ness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meta-knowledge (page history and authors); metaknowledge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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