common knowledge
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Definitions & Usage
noun
#1That which is known by most people, and thus cannot reasonably be contested.
noun
#2(logic, game theory) A special kind of knowledge for a group of agents, such that when all the agents in a group G know p, they all know that they know p, they all know that they all know that they know p, and so on ad infinitum.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“A limited liability company is not subtle, Mrs Straithwaite. This one knows that you have insured a five-thousand-pound pearl necklace with it, and when it becomes a matter of common knowledge that you have had one answering to that description stolen, it jumps to the conclusion that they are one and the same.”
— 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
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