单词 | common knowledge |
释义 | > as lemmascommon knowledge common knowledge n. something that most people know, have learned, or accept as the truth from experience or everyday life, rather than from research or study. [Originally after Hellenistic Greek κοιναὶ ἐννοίαι general ideas (compare quot. 1578, where the English translation has ἀνοίας ‘follies’ in place of ἐννοίας ‘ideas’, presumably a typographical error).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] > what is true knowledgea1398 science1574 common knowledge1578 sapience1606 truth1644 1578 W. Hopkinson tr. T. de Bèze Euident Display Popish Pract. 23 Howe doteth that diuine Plato, and howe often erreth hee from those firste principles which they call κοινὰς ἀνοίας common knowlege [L. quae κοινὰς ἐννοίας vocant]. 1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 3rd Pt. vi. 377 The Ambitious Desires of the..House of Guise, to have proceeded to a Warre by way of Scotland, for the Conquest of our Crowne for their Neece the Queene of Scottes (a Matter most manifest to the common Knowledge of the Worlde). 1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism i. 6 The whole scientific and literary world, even the whole educated public, accepts, as a matter of common knowledge, the origin of species from other allied species by the ordinary process of natural birth. 1943 A. F. Raper Tenants of Almighty xiv. 153 The thing [sc. failure of the cotton crop] which some of the farmers feared in '20 and in '21 was common knowledge by the fall of 1922. 2004 National Rev. (New Delhi) Oct. 15/1 The state has landed in a debt-trap. It is common knowledge that the World Bank has not understood the economic challenges of a developing country. < as lemmas |
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