Through lectures, articles and supplemental reading, my background knowledge and foundation grew steadily.

It provides essential background knowledge to current debates.

True understanding of human language requires extensive background knowledge and mental models that allow flexible reasoning.

But more importantly, it requires the reconstruction of experience as it is embodied in background knowledge.

Much extra-language background knowledge goes into human language and directs understanding from experience to language use.

Armed with this background knowledge, it should not be too difficult to write your own Oracle plugin.

Rather, one has to build background knowledge through extending the experience (practical, emotional, theoretical, etc.)

And there's more good news: from what I can tell, Old Testament Survey isn't going to require a massive amount of background knowledge.

This includes the vast, and mostly unconscious, background knowledge that we use to understand the situations we encounter and the language we communicate with.

Hospitals need more permanent nurses, who see you through, rather than agency nurses, who come and go and have no background knowledge of you.