Distinguishing between prior and posterior probabilities

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Question: Explain the following Sherlock Holmes saying in terms of conditional probability, carefully distinguishing between prior and posterior probabilities: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

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