Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

revise one's priors en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Synonym of update one's priors.
    • We can follow Bayesian decision theorists and dub what is happening 'revising your priors', or we can think of it as simply an increased tolerance for the side-eye you get when advancing your new views. 2022 February 10, Sam Haselby, “Fringe theories stack”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
    • If a rationalist wants to pay you a big compliment, she might tell you that you have caused her to "revise her priors"—that is, to alter some of her well-justified prior assumptions. 2021 August 16, Joshua Rothman, “Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?”, in New Yorker:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
revised one's priors Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
revised one's priors Tense=Past lexicographic
revises one's priors Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
revising one's priors Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

update one's priors