Easwaran on Conditional Probability
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Frequent commenter Kenny Easwaran (who also has a weblog, Antimeta, devoted to philosophy of math) has written several interesting essays on the interpretation of conditional probability:
- What Conditional Probability Must (Almost) Be
- Two Analyses of Conditional Probability in Terms of Unconditional
The question is practically and philosophically interesting in the case that the event you are conditioning on occurs with probability zero.