Assertion: evidence | /r/HasProperty | irrelevant
Facets:
value: really
type: DEGREE
value: logically
type: DEGREE
value: normally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: For instance, evidence that a murder defendant ate spaghetti on the day of the murder would normally be irrelevant because people who eat spaghetti are not more or less likely to commit murder, as compared with other people.
text: Notably, even views which tend to marginalize the role of a subject's evidence in determining facts about what he or she is justified in believing typically do not take facts about the subject's evidence to be wholly irrelevant.
text: For example, evidence that the victim of a car accident was apparently a "liar, cheater, womanizer, and a man of low morals" was unduly prejudicial and irrelevant to whether he had a valid product liability claim against the manufacturer of the tires on his van (which had rolled over resulting in severe brain damage).
text: If the evidence is logically irrelevant, it must for that reason be excluded.
text: If it doesnt, we say the evidence is irrelevant, which I discuss under Evaluating Evidence, below.
text: If after giving the author the benefit of the doubt in this way you still cannot see a connection, you can be more confident that the evidence really is irrelevant.