The mathematics of uncertainty
New information changes the odds. Once you learn that "the die came up even," the chance it's a 2 is no longer 1/6, because you've ruled out the odd faces. Conditional probability is the machinery for updating a probability when you know some event B has already occurred.
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▶ Conditional Probability