Incidentally, the lesson I take from Nagel’s paper is that it’s not really “common knowledge” that’s the problem, so much as the act of raising such common knowledge to public salience. (We may still refrain from publicly acknowledging even facts we’re privately quite certain that everyone else is also privately certain of, and so on.)
Incidentally, the lesson I take from Nagel’s paper is that it’s not really “common knowledge” that’s the problem, so much as the act of raising such common knowledge to public salience. (We may still refrain from publicly acknowledging even facts we’re privately quite certain that everyone else is also privately certain of, and so on.)