commonadjective(USUAL)

common knowledge | American Dictionary

common knowledge

idiom
something that is known to many people but often not made known officially:
It was common knowledge that several doctors at that hospital were incompetent.

Examples of common knowledge

common knowledge
If a player's type can be made commonknowledge, rational egoists would not survive.
In game theory, it is very difficult to alter the assumption of commonknowledge.
A broadside ballad relied not on sheet music but on commonknowledge of a tune (it was indicated only by name).
It has always been in the interest of human beings to know that bacteria cause disease but it has only become commonknowledge recently.
If it remains stable, commonknowledge may have a meaningful linguistic/symbolic representation, such as rules, as we will discuss in more detail shortly.
Note that the assumption of communication being commonknowledge is not violated because messages are assumed to be broadcasted to all the agents.
Conditions are derived that describe when the outcome of unanimous voting with private information converges to voting when information is entirely commonknowledge.
At first glance, this runs counter to commonknowledge and expectations.
It is commonknowledge that a great many crimes now carry punishments that are little more than fines.
The point of a formal model is to assume that the electoral response is commonknowledge.
It became part of the commonknowledge and as such, it is hardly ever mentioned.
If we want an answer to that question, we cannot use a modelling strategy which presupposes that properties of the model are commonknowledge.
Apart from everything else, the asymmetry implies that players' models of one another could never be commonknowledge in a game.
Two types of knowledge were identified that can only be learned collectively, namely, commonknowledge and knowledge of knowledge states of other agents.
However, this move also suggests a dynamical analysis of anarchy, one that assumes no commonknowledge.
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