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{{short description|Usefulness of considering certain information in the context of a given topic}} {{Other uses}} {{Redirect|Irrelevant|the Slik Toxik album|Irrelevant (album){{!}}''Irrelevant'' (album)|the Pink song|Irrelevant (song)}} {{More footnotes needed|date=June 2009}} '''Relevance''' is the connection between topics that makes one useful for dealing with the other. Relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive science, logic, and [[library and information science]]. [[Epistemology]] studies it in general, and different theories of knowledge have different implications for what is considered relevant.
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