There has been some disagreement over my use of such
words as "know"/"known" and "resolve". I've posted the
links.

Now I see there is a fundamental problem with the word
"public". Not only is there no searchable term (but for
the name of a band) "general public", "public" is about
as general or universal as you can be:

http://tinyurl.com/jjvh

public (INVOLVING PEOPLE)
adjective