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3.5 Maxim of Relevance • Be relevant Every utterance in any conversation is meaningful only in relation to other utterances made earlier before it. Those who make statements that are not relevant to the conversation are either seen as not following the conversation well enough to make meaningful
contributions or they are,
in extreme cases, seen as people who need to have their head examined. It is generally believed inmost human cultures that it is better to keep quiet and follow a conversation than to make irrelevant utterances.
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