COMMONKNOWLEDGE

Common knowledge

Common knowledge is a special kind of knowledge for a group of agents. There is common knowledge of p in a group of agents G when all the agents in 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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common knowledge

Noun

  1. What "everybody knows", often with reference to a specific community; something which 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.


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