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    expression of this wager is in Pascal's Pensées ("Thoughts"), a posthumous compilation of previously unpublished notes. Pascal's wager is the first formal...
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  • Pascal's Wager is a Soulslike action role-playing video game developed by TipsWorks and published by Giant Network and Yooreka Studio. Players control...
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    sides lie on a line (called the Pascal line). Pascal's work was so precocious that René Descartes was convinced that Pascal's father had written it. When...
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  • probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a version of Pascal's wager. The LessWrong forum was created in 2009 by artificial intelligence...
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  • Justification, is an atheistic response to Pascal's wager regarding the existence of God. One version of the Atheist's wager suggests that since a kind and loving...
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  • refers to Pascal's Wager, but unlike the wager, it does not require infinite rewards. This sidesteps many objections to the Pascal's Wager dilemma that...
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  • creation". Blaise Pascal argued that even if there were truly no evidence for God, agnostics should consider what is now known as Pascal's Wager: the infinite...
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  • Pensées philosophiques (in French). Vol. 1. p. 167. "Pascal's Wager". Objections to Pascal's Wager. Stanford University. 2018. Mackie, J. L., 1982. The...
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  • application of decision theory to the belief in God is Pascal's wager, published by Blaise Pascal in his 1669 work Pensées. The application is a defense...
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  • motion of a galloping horse were not part of a wager, contrary to popular opinion. Pascal's wager is not a wager in the sense used in this article. United...
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  • Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 37–72 Morris, Thomas, Making Sense of It All: Pascal...
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    Pensées (category Works by Blaise Pascal)
    Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense...
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    Arnobius gives the first known version of the argument later called Pascal's Wager, that in case of doubt about religion one should commit to it because...
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  • creation". Blaise Pascal argued that even if there were truly no evidence for God, agnostics should consider what is now known as Pascal's Wager: the infinite...
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  • of fideism is assumed by Pascal's Wager, which is a rational argument for a pragmatic view of God's existence. Blaise Pascal invites the atheist considering...
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    Nan Episode: "My First Nativity" 2011 Casualty Rachel Lan Episode: "Pascal's Wager" Coming Up Maggie Episode: "Hooked" 2012 Sadie J Nan Bet Episode: "Kissalicious"...
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  • for his sins and Billy playing God as a cult leader, Wardlow cited Pascal's wager to summarize the major theme of the project: "Bad Times repeatedly asks...
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  • Persons: The Foundation of Ethics, appeared in 2022. Franklin has defended Pascal's Wager and Leibniz's Best of all possible worlds theory, and has discussed...
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  • Philosophy portal Religion portal Pramana Faith and rationality Fideism Pascal's wager Reformed epistemology Skeptical theism Clark, Kelly James (October 2...
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    Pensées philosophiques (in French). Vol. 1. p. 167. "Pascal's Wager". Objections to Pascal's Wager. Stanford University. 2018. Mackie, J. L., 1982. The...
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    Nyayakusumanjali Ontological Anselm Gödel Meinongian Modal Mulla Sadra Pascal's wager Reason Proper basis and Reformed epistemology Responses to the problem...
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  • Arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring Pascal's wager – Argument for the belief in God Philosophy of religion – Branch of...
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  • French cinemas on 4 June the same year. One of the main themes concerns Pascal's Wager, which Jean-Louis and Vidal discuss. The conversations are directly...
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  • (although not exactly of course) 100 percent certainty". Additive smoothing Pascal's wager Rule of succession Jackman, Simon (2009) Bayesian Analysis for the Social...
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  • opinion." Here James considers and largely agrees with the criticism of Pascal's Wager that we either should not or are unable to believe or disbelieve at...
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  • of god(s) may lead to acceptance of a particular religion: compare Pascal's Wager. Doubt of a specific theology, scriptural or deistic, may bring into...
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  • hominem – circumstantial form Appeal to worse problems Consequentialism Pascal's wager Utilitarianism Wishful thinking "Fallacy: Appeal to Consequences of...
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  • In Éric Rohmer's film My Night at Maud's (1969), conversations about Pascal's Wager are directly inspired by a similar debate between Parain and Dominique...
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    the use of probability in theology. Even following Pascal's reasoning presented in Pascal's wager, it is not worth making a bet, for the hope of profit...
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  • Nyayakusumanjali Ontological Anselm Gödel Meinongian Modal Mulla Sadra Pascal's wager Reason Proper basis and Reformed epistemology Responses to the problem...
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