meta-knowledge

On the other hand, learning grammar in isolation or semi-isolation allows us to build up a great meta-knowledge of a language, without the skills to actually use it … We need to ensure that context reflect the interests and needs of students, that they can see it being relevant to the situations in which they might use language.

S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT 2010

And armed with this meta-knowledge, I have come to realize something.

Ick, I'm the Crabby One - SpouseBUZZ 2008

And armed with this meta-knowledge, I have come to realize something.

April 2008 - SpouseBUZZ 2008

Um, since we have the meta-knowledge that cancelling S60 sorta ends the show and Amanda Peet isn't getting fired, it's not really threatening enough to happen to hang the shows so far off of it.

Fall Season So Far Rogers 2006

But they need to have extra meta-knowledge about which way of thinking is appropriate in each situation.

Archive 2006-07-01 Bill Kerr 2006

But they need to have extra meta-knowledge about which way of thinking is appropriate in each situation.

the emotion machine Bill Kerr 2006

Also, while Google can pagerank according to links, it can't aggregate knowledge to produce meta-knowledge drop rates, spawn ranges, etc. that require the correct aggregation of incoming data.

Automated Expertise Management 2005

Sadly, none of my friends ever want to run it, because they know that I'd ruin the game with my meta-knowledge about the setting, and frankly, none of them care enough about the setting to want to run it anyway, so it ends up being my game to DM.

1UP RSS feed 2009

In this case, as you note, meta-knowledge of who Alia Shawkat is can help to clarify the sentence*, but a willful misreading is to assume that the reader doesn’t, and to restructure accordingly.

The serial, Harvard, or Oxford comma « Motivated Grammar 2008