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common knowledge

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  • noun What "everybody knows", often with reference to a specific community; something which cannot reasonably be contested.
  • noun 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.

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  • noun anything generally known to everyone

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