Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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Roko's basilisk (section Pascal's wager)
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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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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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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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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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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Fideism (section Blaise Pascal and fideism)
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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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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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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which consequently would be the topmost higher-order voliton to win Pascal's wager, corresponding to the drug addict's desire to survive his drug addiction...
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Arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring Pascal's wager – Argument regarding the belief in God Philosophy of religion – Branch...
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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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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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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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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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Hippo. Some of the most striking passages in Pascal's Pensées, including the famous section on the Wager, deal with existentialist themes. Jacques Maritain...
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