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  2. Historical significance - Wikipedia

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    A key concept for the study of history and public life in most societies regardless of topic, historical significance makes judgements about what is important to be remembered about the past and why, through its reflections on historical aspects to contemporary culture and society [14] including historical reputations, events, issues, [15] monuments, [16] and what is chosen to be emphasized in ...

  3. Relevance - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...

  5. Relevance (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    The information retrieval community has emphasized the use of test collections and benchmark tasks to measure topical relevance, starting with the Cranfield Experiments of the early 1960s and culminating in the TREC evaluations that continue to this day as the main evaluation framework for information retrieval research.

  6. Philology - Wikipedia

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    Philology (from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology.

  7. Historicism - Wikipedia

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    David Summers, building on the work of E. H. Gombrich, defines historicism negatively, writing that it posits "that laws of history are formulatable and that in general the outcome of history is predictable," adding "the idea that history is a universal matrix prior to events, which are simply placed in order within that matrix by the historian ...

  8. Wikipedia:Relevance - Wikipedia

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    "John Smith is a member of the XYZ organization" in the "John Smith" article is an example of this. Relevance level "Medium" – Information that is "once removed" is less directly relevant, should receive a higher level of scrutiny and achieve higher levels in other areas (such as neutrality, weight and strength [further explanation needed ...

  9. Historicity - Wikipedia

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    Questions of historicity are particularly relevant to partisan or poetic accounts of past events. For example, the historicity of the Iliad has become a topic of debate because later archaeological finds suggest that the work was based on some true event. [12] Questions of historicity frequently arise in relation to historical studies of religion.