metabelief

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

meta- +‎ belief

Noun[edit]

metabelief (countable and uncountable, plural metabeliefs)

  1. A belief about some belief(s).
    • 2015 October 31, “Procedural Metacognition and False Belief Understanding in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In the second case, however, no such metabelief is needed to mediate a metacognitive evaluation.