Sentence examples for conceptions of relevance from inspiring English sources
Leaving aside the dissenting view for the moment, we will turn first to consider possible conceptions of relevance in the conventional sense of logical relevance.
On an explanatory conception of relevance, evidence is relevant if it is explained by or provides a reason for believing the particular explanation of the material events offered by the side adducing the evidence, and it remains relevant even where, as in our example, the evidence also supports or forms part of the explanation offered by the opponent (Pardo and Allen 2008: 241 2; Pardo 2013: 600).
It is doubtful that evidence of a person's character and past behaviour can have no probabilistic bearing on his behaviour on a particular occasion; on a probabilistic conception of relevance, it is difficult to see why the evidence is not relevant.
On the likelihood ratio conception of relevance, this fact should be irrelevant and hence evidence of it should not be allowed to be adduced.
'Relevance' in relevance theory, then, should not be taken to be just our ordinary conception of relevance; nor should it be equated with the 'relevance' of Grice's maxim, although it is connected to that and intended to provide a deepened understanding of what underlies the maxim.
If we take a normative conception of relevance instead of a logical or probabilistic one, it is not an abuse of language to describe inadmissible evidence as irrelevant if what is meant is that the evidence ought not to be taken into account in a certain way.
In line with the concept of greater relevance of environmental factors, recent reports suggest that the prevention of childhood and adult obesity may need to begin even before conception [ 48– 51].
This study investigated the cultural relevance of current conceptions of dissonance's role in self-authorship development.
Policy guidelines which incorporate utility analysis must recognize the normative limitations of aggregated preferences, and the moral relevance of individual conceptions of health.
Others are less comfortable with that "aggregative" feature of Raz's conception; yet the relevance of numbers is often hard to dismiss.
