Metaknowledge

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Metaknowledge or meta-knowledge is knowledge about a preselected knowledge.

For the reason of different definitions of knowledge in the subject matter literature, meta-information is or is not included in meta-knowledge.

Meta-knowledge is a fundamental conceptual instrument in such research and scientific domains as knowledge engineering and knowledge management. Put simpler, metaknowledge may be linked to knowledge you need but you don't yet possess: it is a cluster of definitions and methods aiming to guide you in gathering the pertinent knowledge with regard to your activity.

See also

• Epistemic logic
• Knowledge
• Meta-
• Metaprogramming in Computer Science
• Metahistory, a book by Hayden White
• Meta-philosophy
• Meta-epistemology
• Metalogic
• Metamathematics
• Metaphysics
• Meta-ethics
• Meta-ontology
• meta-theory
• Metadata

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External links

• Knowledge Interchange Format Reference Manual Chapter 7: Metaknowledge, Stanford University
• A Survey of Cognitive and Agent Architectures: Meta-knowledge, University of Michigan

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