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common knowledge

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noun

  1. something widely or generally known

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Common knowledge held that DeMatha, with such a strong alumni network, was unlikely to choose an outsider.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2022

March 29, 2010 4:30 pm Link Common knowledge for over a year now: http://huggingtheturns.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-have-found-bike-snob.html And no one cared back then either.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2010

Common knowledge is Egypt's long-standing wish to have her status as an independent kingdom confirmed by membership in the League.

From Time Magazine Archive

Common knowledge is un-unified knowledge; science is partially unified knowledge; philosophy, which combines the highest generalizations of the sciences into a supreme one, is completely unified knowledge.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

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