evand comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: evand 02 October 2012 08:58:53PM 1 point [-]

P(A|B) should be read as "the probability of A, given that B is true" or, more concisely, "P of A given B". Search terms like conditional probability(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability) should get you started. You'll probably also want to read about [Bayes' Theorem.