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Definition of Common knowledge
1. Noun. Anything generally known to everyone.
Definition of Common knowledge
1. Noun. What "everybody knows", often with reference to a specific community; something which cannot reasonably be contested. ¹
2. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Knowledge
Literary usage of Common knowledge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"It is a matter of common knowledge that Harvey (1616 and 162-м Fio. 220.
PORTRAIT OF (From Ihc reproduction in Jl. R. Micros. Soc., 1913, p»rti By (I IL- ..."
2. The Elements of Intellectual Science: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Noah Porter (1874)
"We cannot say, in the history of any branch of knowledge, Here common knowledge
ceases and science begins: At this point he who knows as a man, ..."
3. Hand Book on the Law of Evidence: A Concise Statement of the Rules in Civil by Charles Frederic Chamberlayne, Arthur Walker Blakemore, Dewitt Clinton Moore (1919)
"common knowledge.*1— common knowledge is general knowledge. It is the knowledge
that every one has. The subject, as has been intimated, has no special ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1891)
"... common knowledge, and there can be no doubt it ie a wrong, unless consented to.
It is not in the power of a city to license any one to damage or ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"The court will take notice of scientific matters of common knowledge.1 Mfg.
Co., 20 Fed. Rep. ... Of matters of science, not strictly of common knowledge. ..."
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