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The idea behind conditioning is that a partial observation can give one some idea of where in sample space the ω specifying the realization must lie: in a set A, say. Then, in effect, the sample space has contracted: instead of taking expectations over the full space Ω, one does so only over A.
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Whittle, P. (2000). Conditioning. In: Probability via Expectation. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0509-8_5
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