Relevance (disambiguation)
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Relevance
is a measure of how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is.
Relevance may also refer to:
Relevance
-Introduction:The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic and library and information science. Most fundamentally, however, it is studied in epistemology...
is a measure of how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is.
Relevance may also refer to:
- Relevance (information retrieval)Relevance (information retrieval)In information science and information retrieval, relevance denotes how well a retrieved document or set of documents meets the information need of the user.-Types:...
, a measure of a document's applicability to a given subject or search query - Relevance (law)Relevance (law)Relevance, in the common law of evidence, is the tendency of a given item of evidence to prove or disprove one of the legal elements of the case, or to have probative value to make one of the elements of the case likelier or not. Probative is a term used in law to signify "tending to prove."...
, regarding the admissibility of evidence in legal proceedings - Relevance logicRelevance logicRelevance logic, also called relevant logic, is a kind of non-classical logic requiring the antecedent and consequent of implications be relevantly related. They may be viewed as a family of substructural or modal logics...
, mathematical logic system that imposes certain restrictions on implication - Relevance theoryRelevance theoryRelevance theory is a proposal by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson that seeks to explain the second method of communication: one that takes into account implicit inferences...
, cognitive theory of communication via interpretive inferences