The everyday meaning of “common knowledge” is knowledge held in common, often as an open secret. For example, it is common knowledge that publishers like books that seek, via quirky examples, to ...

Source: Scribner / Used with permission. In a New Yorker cartoon about marital relations, a husband tells his wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to ...

Of all the ironies in academia, this one felt particularly unlikely: I was asked to introduce Steven Pinker and moderate the Q&A for his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... : ...

In Ross v. U.S., decided last month by the D.C. Court of Appeals, defendant had left her dog Cinnamon for over an hour in a parked car on a hot day (98 F) with the windows cracked open. (There was ...

Xiaohui Wu of Wanhuida Intellectual Property reports on a ruling by the Supreme People’s Court of China that emphasises that the determination of common knowledge in the assessment of inventiveness ...

Let us begin with a few simple propositions: (1) I know that the Harvard cognitive scientist and noted anti-wokeness crusader Steven Pinker has written a wan and blinkered book about the nature of ...

Listen, I'm not unaware that I'm entering the middle stage of my life, and things I take for granted might be outdated or whatever... but every week or two, someone posts in our neighborhood group ...