prior belief
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpriorandbelief
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prior
adjective[before noun]
uk/praɪər/us/praɪr/
formal
existing or happening before something else, or before a ...
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belief
noun[C or S or U]
uk/bɪˈliːf/us/bɪˈliːf/
the feeling of being certain that something exists or ...
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(Definition ofpriorandbelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I suggest that one may, without anypriorbeliefin the existence of such supernatural agents, reasonably come to believe that one has witnessed miracles.
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For example, many aspects of the contemporary legal system put a premium on detachingpriorbeliefand world knowledge from the process of evidence evaluation.
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The choice l 10 represents increased strength of ourpriorbelief, and it can be interpreted as a virtual sample of size 10.
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To the extent there is apriorbeliefthat a procedure of interest is either superior or inferior to a comparator, the randomized design becomes controversial.
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Wittgenstein's point was that these reactions were ungrounded, ie not based on anypriorbeliefor theory.
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In other words, our initial overgeneralization, conditioned by ourpriorbeliefthat this is a normal coin, is overturned in response to indirect negative evidence to the contrary.
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Depending on which side is making the argument, the formal inclusion of prior beliefs can be a significant benefit or a significant liability.
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The only meaningful and useful way to specify prior information is through the genuine elicitation of prior beliefs.
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Starting with some prior beliefs about effectiveness, governments observe the outcomes in countries that privatise and in those that do not privatise.
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For the sake of illustration, imagine that governments have particular prior beliefs about the expected rate of growth following privatisation.
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By contrast, prior beliefs also influence information selection.
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This type of decision usually involves designs of decision models, specifications of prior beliefs, and selections of appropriate loss functions and data.
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Unpacking prior beliefs seems to be a greater task for the music course.
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And we are tempted to search for evidence and analogies that confirm, rather than challenge, our prior beliefs.
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On this account, we could no longer justify the quantification of prior beliefs by a unique probability measure on decision-theoretic grounds alone.
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It is true that all of one's prior beliefs make the fact that one is holding four jacks highly unlikely.
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Consider next how stimulus objects are sampled from an environment and a class of phenomena known as "contingency illusions," which were attributed to irrelevant prior beliefs or prejudices against minorities.
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