Sentence examples for irrelevant to understanding from inspiring English sources

Some wondered whether he was simply what is called "an outlier" — a rare case that is nearly miraculous but essentially irrelevant to understanding the biology of the problem.

To summarise bluntly, students and many employers feel that the typical economics graduate today receives a training that is irrelevant to understanding real economies, incomprehensible to the target audiences for economic advice, and often just plain incorrect.

For rational choice theorists, history and culture are irrelevant to understanding political behaviour; instead, it is sufficient to know the actors' interests and to assume that they pursue them rationally.

These biographical details may be irrelevant to understanding the genetic factors that make cells compatible or incompatible with one another, letting the immune system rest or rousing it into action.

While there may be causal influences upon my choice, there need not be, and any such causal influence is wholly irrelevant to understanding why it occurs.

These scholars argued in subsequent work that their form of study showed that philosophical analyses of rationality, of evidence, of truth and knowledge, were irrelevant to understanding scientific knowledge.

Nor may we rest content with the obvious fact that deductive explanations seem irrelevant when it comes to understanding mental life generally.

Belief or nonbelief in God is irrelevant to our understanding of the workings of nature — just as it's irrelevant to the question of whether or not citizens are obligated to follow the law.

This side of his work, while of no obvious philosophical interest (in the way we conceive the discipline today anyway), I believe reveals something important about Dummett's intellectual character, and something not irrelevant to our understanding of his contributions in philosophy proper.

This method also reveals what Gould (1996) remarks as our orthodox and fallacious way of treating "particular or abstractions quite often biased" (p. 15) as hallmarks of a developmental trend while all observed variation is simply treated as noise or irrelevant to the understanding of biological phenomena.

The most serious objections to this kind of view are that (i) it fails to make works intersubjectively accessible, since the number of works going under the name The Rite of Spring will be as multifarious as the imaginative experiences people have at performances with that name, and (ii) it makes the medium of the work irrelevant to an understanding of it.