So if we observe e, then: - h|e becomes 1 - h|~e = e->h decreases - h increases I notice I'm confused, though. Is h|e about this specific instance of e, or

So if we observe e, then: - h|e becomes 1 - h|~e = e->h decreases - h increases I notice I'm confused, though. Is h|e about this specific instance of e, or the general e? How about e->h? It feels like we're moving the goal-posts: at first h|e = 1 because we're talking about a specific e (we found a smoker with cancer), and e->h decreases because we're talking about that specific e, but then later we start to draw conclusions about the general e->h such as describing it as whether "the evidence validates the hypothesis". And I don't know how to formally relate the specific e->h to the general e->h.