Usually means: Previously acquired information guiding understanding.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prior knowledge)

noun:  (criminal law) Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.
noun:  (insurance law) Prior to the inception of an insurance policy, knowledge of specific extant circumstances that could reasonably give rise to a claim under that policy.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prior, knowledge.

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