knowledge vs prior knowledge

knowledge

noun
  • The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. 

  • Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). 

  • Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. 

  • Justified true belief 

  • The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. 

  • The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England. 

  • Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. 

  • Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. 

  • Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. 

prior knowledge

noun
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prior, knowledge. 

  • Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful. 

  • Prior to the inception of an insurance policy, knowledge of specific extant circumstances that could reasonably give rise to a claim under that policy. 

How often have the words knowledge and prior knowledge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )