The phrase "irrelevant reason" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a reason that is not related or pertinent to the situation at hand. Example: The teacher asked the student why he was late to class, but his response about his breakfast being burnt was an irrelevant reason.
Since the balance of reasons rather than the balance of force should determine our beliefs, we would not consent to a system in which irrelevant reasons for belief might influence us.
When pressed for why they were dissatisfied, they said the facility made them clean up their own area, or they didn't have tortillas – small, irrelevant reasons for their dissatisfaction with their care.
8 Additionally, despite Daniels' and Sabin's view that A4R is compatible with theories of deliberate democracy 1 in the sense that deliberation gives rise to relevant and irrelevant reasons for decisions its relation to efforts of public participation remains opaque.
3 Owing to the difficult conceptual distinction between relevant and irrelevant reasons, a number of scholars now advocate an analysis of the content of decision-making to supplement the analysis of the processes of decision-making.
The right to vote is important but it is irrelevant without a reason to vote.
"The president's budget might be dead on arrival in Congress for political reasons, but it shouldn't be irrelevant for numbers reasons," Mr. Reischauer said.
On one occasion, for reasons irrelevant to this story, I had to spend a night in Clara's city.
· I have spent, for reasons irrelevant for the purposes of this column, some time this week investigating the origin of the word and the place name Loggerheads.
My parents are now dead, and for reasons irrelevant to all this, I am not close to my half brother or to the siblings who were born after me.
Carter, Fox, and other advocates of the F-35 will contend the F-22 cost experience is irrelevant for two reasons.
A total of 381 studies were screened; 358 were excluded for the following reasons: irrelevant (n = 229), review (n = 7), study design or too small in sample size (n = 26), only focused on vitamin D metabolism (n = 45), pediatric studies (n = 46) and animal studies (n = 5), after detailed evaluation, one additional study was excluded because of duplicates.
