diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index b2f98d0..f257643 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
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@@ -2558,6 +2558,13 @@
       yes. If deemed appropriate, the record may be modified in-place by this
       method.
 
+Note that filters attached to handlers are consulted whenever an event is
+emitted by the handler, whereas filters attached to loggers are consulted
+whenever an event is logged to the handler (using :meth:`debug`, :meth:`info`,
+etc.) This means that events which have been generated by descendant loggers
+will not be filtered by a logger's filter setting, unless the filter has also
+been applied to those descendant loggers.
+
 .. _log-record:
 
 LogRecord Objects