Priors and prejudice

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20 (4):319-327 (1999)
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This paper explores the relationship between concepts of probability and hermeneutics. It seeks to examine the relationship between subjective (Bayesian) views of probability and hermeneutic descriptions of understanding. It is argued that Gadamer'saccount of the prejudicial nature of understanding, derived from Heidegger'sanalysis of foreunderstanding, offers a provocative model of clinical reasoning. The implications of this model for evidence-based medicine are discussed in conclusion.

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Truth and Method.H. Gadamer - 1975 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36 (4):487-490.
Studies in subjective probability.Henry Ely Kyburg - 1980 - Huntington, N.Y.: Krieger. Edited by Howard Edward Smokler.
Evidence‐based medicine: Reference? Dogma? Neologism? New orthodoxy?A. Polychronls, A. Miles & P. Bentley - 1996 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2 (1):1-3.

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