Word.ws English Dictionary

updates one's priors

updates one's priors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of update one's priors.

Meaning of update one's priors

Verb

update one's priors (third-person singular simple present updates one's priors, present participle updating one's priors, simple past and past participle updated one's priors)

  1. (rationalist community) To change one's beliefs in the face of new evidence.
    • In others words, the study doesn't make me think I should update my priors much at all.2016 March 23, Aaron E. Carroll, “In Defense of Moderate Drinking (Again)”, in New York Times

Questions about updates one's priors

What is updates one's priors the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Updates one's priors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of update one's priors.

Words near updates one's priors in the dictionary

  1. updated
  2. updated one's priors
  3. updater
  4. updaters
  5. updates
  6. updates one's priors
  7. updating
  8. updating one's priors
  9. updatings
  10. updation
  11. updations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: updates one's priors (page history and authors); update one's priors (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “updates one's priors.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/updates_one%27s_priors. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.