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(4) Mary, of Peter, who has just tripped over his own feet: Peter’s just like Rudolf Nureyev
Example (4) above fits straightforwardly into this pattern: (4) Mary, of Peter, who has just tripped over his own feet: Peter’s just like Rudolf Nureyev
In this paper, we have briefly sketched an explanatory pragmatic theory based on a single principle of relevance
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Relevance We would like to suggest that the standards governing inferential communication have their source in some basic facts about human cognition. These cases illustrate the three ways in which new information can interact with, and be relevant in, a context of existing assumptions: by combining with the context to yield contextual implications; by strengthening existing assumptions; and by contradicting and eliminating existing assumptions Let us group these three types of interaction together and call them contextual effects. We claim that new information is relevant in any context in which it has contextual effects, and the greater its contextual effects, the more relevant it will be This comparative definition of relevance is inadequate in one respect, as the following example shows: Case D You wake up, thinking:. An individual with finite processing resources, who is aiming to maximise relevance, should pay attention to the phenomena which, when represented in the best possible way, and processed in the best possible context, seem likely to yield the greatest possible contextual effects in return for the available processing effort. The aim of maximising relevance, is the key to cognition
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