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mutual beliefs  

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  • The notion of mutual belief (also called common belief) has been extensively studied in the past four decades. It plays a central role in several areas of research, ranging from social philosophy and linguistics to game theory, theoretical computer science, and distributed artificial intelligence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Mutual Beliefs]

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