Apocalyptic relevance

✍ Scribed by John Woods

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 908 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-427X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00154325

✦ Synopsis

In their book, Relevance, Sperber and Wilson make an important contribution towards constructing a credible theory of this unforthcoming notion. All is not clear sailing, however. If it is accepted as a condition on the adequacy of any account of relevance that it not be derivable either that nothing is relevant to anything or that everything is relevant to everything, it can be shown that Sperber and Wilson come close to violating the condition.