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• n  relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand

• The criteria for talk should be appropriateness and pertinency.
• The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered.
• With equal necessity and pertinency, it points the way out of the belief that experience as such is inherently cognitional and that cognition is the sole path that leads into .

• applicability
• pertinence

• inapplicability