Maybe this is what you meant by “What you can have is some parameter controlling the prior itself (so that the prior can be less or more confident about certain things).”
Yes, I think we are talking about the same thing. If you change your distribution over hypotheses, or the distribution over evidence implied by each hypothesis, then it means you’re changing the prior.
Maybe this is what you meant by “What you can have is some parameter controlling the prior itself (so that the prior can be less or more confident about certain things).”
Yes, I think we are talking about the same thing. If you change your distribution over hypotheses, or the distribution over evidence implied by each hypothesis, then it means you’re changing the prior.