Irrelevance reasoning refers to the process in which a system reasons about which parts of its knowledge are relevant (or irrelevant) to a specific query.
5– 7 Executive function consists of a number of processes, including monitoring and control of behavior, suppression of irrelevant information, reasoning, updating information in working memory, inhibition of prepotent responses, planning, shifting, and control of attention.
The second robot did not finish its extensive, irrelevant side-effect reasoning procedures before the bomb goes off.
Whether the person answers yes or no is irrelevant; what counts is the reasoning that supports the decision.
The algorithm identifies the objects (in this case abandoned luggage items) via logical foreground-background reasoning, while ignoring all irrelevant objects within the same scene.
Sure, I'm 21 years old and my reasoning could eventually be irrelevant.
Successful mathematical reasoning requires stripping away superficial, irrelevant details to access the underlying abstract structure.
For example, random worlds captures important patterns of reasoning such as specificity, inheritance, indifference to irrelevant information, and default assumptions of independence.
It is irrelevant because it has nothing to with sound constitutional reasoning.
On any realistic account, a central task of moral reasoning is to sort out relevant considerations from irrelevant ones, as well as to determine which are especially relevant and which only slightly so.
This reasoning may persuade some that philosophy is not altogether irrelevant to practical knowledge.
