revise one's priors

English

Verb

revise one's priors (third-person singular simple present revises one's priors, present participle revising one's priors, simple past and past participle revised one's priors)

1. Synonym of update one's priors
   • 2021 August 16, Joshua Rothman, “Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?”, in New Yorker‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022 February 10, Sam Haselby, “Fringe theories stack”, in Aeon‎^[2]:

     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.