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Meaning of common knowledge

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

common knowledge

noun

Definitions

  1. That which is known by most people, and thus cannot reasonably be contested.

  2. 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.