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Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives


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The phrase “common knowledge” is usually used to mean a fact most people are aware of, like that George W. Bush was president in the early 2000s. But as cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker explains in his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…:Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life, the term has a more precise…

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The Free PressBy Bari Weiss