Wisdom of the crowd is the emergent opinion arising from multiple actors.
The logicians Alice and Bob are sitting in their dark office wondering whether or not it is raining outside.
Bob does not know this, but he just saw Carol, and noticed that she was wearing her red coat.
that if Carol wears a red coat, it is raining, we have Directly translated: Bob knows that Carol wears a red coat and Alice knows that if Carol wears a red coat it is raining so together they know that it is raining.
Distributed knowledge is related to the concept Wisdom of the crowd.