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    Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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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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  • 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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  • religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative, 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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  • 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 (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • teaching". This ancient wager argument is similar in structure to modern wager arguments like Pascal's Wager and the Atheist's Wager. According to Thanissaro...
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  • Existence of Jesus Gödel's ontological proof Is There a God? Metaphysics Pascal's Wager Problem of evil Problem of the creator of God Rationalism Relationship...
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    who claim to have contact with deceased people include Tyler Henry and Pascal Voggenhuber. Research also includes the study of the near death experience...
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  • or ethical foundation, or renders life meaningless and miserable. Blaise Pascal argued this view in his Pensées. There is also a position claiming that...
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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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    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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  • Arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring Pascal's wager – Argument that posits human beings bet with their lives that God either...
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