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The Difference Between Ex-Ante, Post Hoc, Ex Post, A Priori, and A Posteriori | Daniel Miessler

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If you do a lot of (good) reading you have probably run into a few highbrow, Latiney sounding phrases like those in the title of this post. I’m guessing y

July 11, 2018 If you do a lot of (good) reading you have probably run into a few highbrow, Latiney sounding phrases like those in the title of this post. I’m guessing you almost looked them up several times, but if you’re here you finally did. Well done. Here they are. Ex Ante means before the event, and is basically a prediction of something. In the financial world it’s often a prediction of a return on an investment. Ex Post means after the event, and means something that is settled after the event actually happens. For investment companies it’s a look back at how they company actually…

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