For him the material that is relevant and irrelevant is selected in advance by another mind.
Too much preoccupation with them in a general fashion, however, without translation into relevant imagery of actual conditions, is likely to give rise to unreal difficulties.
Finally, he is quite oblivious of the relevantcategories of reproduction.
In the act of exchange all that matters is that the commodity represents value, and only its concrete qualities, its usefulness, are relevant to the use we make of it.
What is more, all relevant premises for the problem are simply left out.
An essential part of Chapter 17, Section II, which is more or less relevantto Section III, was at the same time drawn into this discussion and expanded.
The provocation and the relationship were two relevant circumstances in that case.
Footnote 17: The exception apparent in the Incarnation is not relevant here.
Without an obvious solution to a discrepancy the numbers remain as originally printed, however the following alterations have been made to ensure any details in the NOTES section apply to the relevant poem.
Taurisano, 1585), is open to the more relevant charges of an inordinate vanity and some duplicity.
If this case had been tried on merely relevant issues it would have been finished in twenty minutes," retorted the court.
It isn't relevant to the issue," replied Mr. O'Shaughnessey.
Simply because nature, of which I am a part, and to which all my ideas must refer if they are to be relevant to my destiny, happens to have mathematical form.
If the good were independent of nature, it might still be conceived as relevant to nature, by being its creator or mover; but Mr. Russell is not a theist after the manner of Socrates; his good is not a power.
This is what determines and narrows the scope of the true good; for the true good is that relevant to nature.
That would be the only relevant answer, and many people would really like to give it; but it is refuted by stating it.
The English trials, on the other hand, did, in fact, bring matters to a focus, and allowed all really relevant matters to be fairly laid before the court.
I must now tell so much as I know, and is relevant to my purpose, of my father's life.
I mention this because it is relevant to his relations with my brother.
He spared no pains in acquiring whatever was relevant to a case; whether knowledge of unfamiliar facts or of legal niceties and previous judicial decisions.
It is highly desirable that the nomenclature relevant to this analytical procedure be changed to one, such as "lead number," which will be more truly indicative of its significance.
The moiety theory, of course, accounts for all the relevant data in the simplest manner.
Relevant data from West Africa have already been cited in another connection.
I have examined his hypothesis as if it were designed to account for all the relevant phenomena simply in order to bring out clearly its inferiority from this point of view to the theory of exogamy.
By the time the doctor called he had skimmed the reports and was reading the relevant ones in greater detail.
Brion ticked off the relevant points in the letter.
The picture is too crowded; he has not the unerring eye for the relevant or salient points of a scene.
If you, sir, think it relevant or essential, I will state what the trouble was.
Was it also relevant to your evaluation that he was apparently living in Russia at the time?
Was it also relevant to your conclusion about his not being a threat to the internal security of the United States that at the time he was apparently living in Russia, at the time covered by this report?
And we are very happy to have you help us to acquit ourselves of our responsibility here in determining all of the relevant circumstances in connection with the assassination of the President.
For this purpose the parties to the dispute will communicate to the Secretary General, as promptly as possible, statements of their case with all the relevant facts and papers, and the Council may forthwith direct the publication thereof.
It was not regarded as relevant to the practical issues to examine the role of certain general ideas and traditions which had grown up in England in determining the form of British policy.
There is, however, one phase of the teaching illustrated by the quotation which is directly relevant here.
Can a satisfaction dependent on an assumption that an idea is already true be relevant to testing the truth of an idea?
And if it be admitted that verification involves action, how can that action be relevant to the truth of an idea, unless the idea is itself already relevant to action?
The special question of how truths are made is not particularly relevant to this anti-rationalistic crusade, while it is the chief question of interest to many.
The difference is the greater control by science of the statement of the problem, and of the selection and use of relevant material, both sensible and conceptual.
In other words, it is relevant to defining an object as a constant correlation of variations in qualities, instead of defining it as a substance in which attributes inhere--or a subject of predicates.
In general, its material is anything in the wide universe which seems to be relevant to this need--anything which may serve as a resource in defining the difficulty or in suggesting modes of dealing effectively with it.
A psychologist may, indeed, bring in the emotions, but if his contribution is relevant it will be because the emotions which figure in his account are just part of the primary organic reaction to the object.
But it is all relevant to judging what he is to do.
But even the slightest concession is, I think, non-pragmatic unless the satisfaction isrelevant to the idea as intent.
It is about as relevant to thinking as are changes that may be happening on the other side of the moon.
The distinctions and classifications that have been accumulated in "formal" logic are relevant data; but they demand interpretation from the standpoint of use as organs of adjustment to material antecedents and stimuli.
The debates in the Committee of Supply must be relevant to the estimates under consideration, that is, they must be confined to the particular vote then before the House, and the conduct of the government connected therewith.
Miss Harrison does not seem to have realized that in her book[427] she has collected evidence which is much more relevant to the point at issue.
I shall refer only to one group of these expressions that is directly relevant to the subject-matter of this book.
The shock of sense, breaking in upon us with a fresh irresistible image, checks wayward imagination and sends it rebounding in a new direction, perhaps more relevant to what is happening in the world outside.
I don't see that that is immediately relevant to my proposition.
The fact that Swickey could not read did not occur to her as relevant to the subject.
It assumes that there is something that may be represented by a term; and it requires that, in any discussion, every relevant term, once used in a definite sense, shall keep that meaning throughout.
On the other hand, some men think a good deal without any continuum of words and without any imagery, or with none that seems relevant to the purpose.
As long as we are content to illustrate the Canons with symbols, such as A and p, all goes well; but can we in any actual investigation show that the relevant facts or 'instances' correspond with those symbols?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relevant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
