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Iterations and Explications on Relevance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

F. E. Sparshott
F. E. Sparshott
Affiliation:
Victoria College, Toronto
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 330 - 333
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1973

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1 For a little more on this theme, see Sparshott, F. E., Looking for Philosophy (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972), p. 147CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 The article to which Nickel refers is an elaboration of part of my Enquiry into Goodness (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1958), in which relevance is a central but undefined term. The constant theme of my substantive work in philosophy has been the desirability, in a world of rapid change, of replacing doctrines by evaluative and prudential strategies in terms of which all thinkable policies are defensible but not all defences are equally sensible. A definition of relevance in terms of what the average man believes to be relevant would not represent such a strategy.