Some Steps Towards a General Theory of Relevance
The classical analysis of relevance in probabilistic terms does not fit legal, moral or conversational relevance, and, though analysis in terms of a psychological model may fit conversational relevance, it certainly does not fit legal, moral or evidential relevance. It is important to notice here th...
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| description | The classical analysis of relevance in probabilistic terms does not fit legal, moral or conversational relevance, and, though analysis in terms of a psychological model may fit conversational relevance, it certainly does not fit legal, moral or evidential relevance. It is important to notice here that some sentences are ambiguous between conversational and non-conversational relevance. But, if and only if R is relevant to a question Q, R is a reason, though not necessarily a complete or conclusive reason, for accepting or rejecting something as an answer to Q. Reasons of this kind are governed by appropriate covering laws or principled probabilities and a number of questions thus arise about the relationship between relevance and certain formal-logical properties. |
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| subjects | Anti smoking movements Conversation Covering law models Judges Landowners Logic Moral principles Murderers Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language Philosophy Probability Reasoning Relevance Relevance logic Statistical relevance model Theoretical Problems Theory Formation |
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