Dec 12, 1998 – Because Pascal's wager fails to tell us which god is likely to be the right one, you have a great probability that you picked the wrong .

May 17, 2011 – Pascal's Wager is the argument that states that you should believe in God even if there's a strong chance that he might not be real, .

Jun 4, 2008 – “Pascal's Wager” is the name given to an argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. .

Apr 8, 2011 – In the first race the options are a horse called "Pascal's Wager" and another horse called. well actually there are no other horses. .

WHAT IS PASCAL'S WAGER- Introduction When discussing God's existence, the name Pascal immediately comes to mind. But can you remember what was meant by. .

Pascal's Wager. Summary. History. Questions. Summary. Pascal's argument is a simple one: reason and intellect cannot decide the question of whether God .

Nov 2, 2009 – FWIW: "Pascal's Wager is the name given to an argument due to BlaisePascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. .

Dec 15, 2009 – For those of you unfamiliar with "Pascal's wager", It's simple theist logic. And you can't prove it wrong.

Feb 22, 2011 – This piece was originally published on AlterNet. Believing in God because it's a safer bet makes no logical or practical sense, .

Jan 27, 2011 – Pascal's Wager was originally to do with belief in a deity: in the absence of faith, we cannot be sure God exists, but we cannot be sure He .

And if I'm right, maybe I just freaked the hell out of some secret organization. {{Title Text: Basically it's Pascal's Wager for the paranoid prankster}} .

Pascal's Wager - Description: Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Blaise .

Jun 12, 2008 – The Atheist Experience explains Pascal's problem. See more at http://www.atheist -experience.com.

Jan 22, 2011 – Pascal's Wager Refuted. . Pascal's Wager Refuted. Theodore M. Drange. The argument (call it "PW") may be formulated as follows: .

Jul 16, 2011 – A local heroin addict gets more than he bargained for after terrorising a couple who run a pharmacy.

Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Blaise Pascal that even if the existence .

Feb 14, 2011 – Pascal's Wager assumes the choice between religion and atheism is simple. You pick either religion, or no religion. Belief in God, or no .

Jun 24, 2011 – Pascal's wager is an argument based on probability theory for why one should live as if God exists, even though this cannot be proved or .

Caption: Basic rights, freedoms, and dignity. Caption: "Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists." -Blaise Pascal. Support Cectic .

Select Blaise Pascal Quotations The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be .

Someone who offers Pascal's Wager is arguing that to believe in God is a better bet than not believing in God. If you believe and God exists, you'll go to .

Oct 26, 2001 – "The reason Pascal's wager does not work is the same reason why you should never plan your retirement on winning the lotto. .

May 13, 2011 – The argument is a form of Pascal's wager. Suppose that I own a firm which generally operates at capacity. The firm is leveraged in the .

Sep 5, 2007 – PASCAL'S WAGER [taken from my forthcoming book for Quercus, Greatest Philosophers, out next month (and which, in my opinion, is a bargain at .

May 20, 2011 – Around 6:00 or 7:00a.m. tomorrow, we should know if if Rev. Camping is correct or liable to be su.

The literature on Pascal's Wager is vast (see, e.g., the references in the entries of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of .

It is the height of folly not to side with God, even if you feel you have no guarantee that your bet will win.

An argument according to which belief in God is rational whether or not God exists, since falsely believing that God exists leads to no harm whereas falsely .

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Thus, it was prudent to be Catholic This became known as Pascal's Wager. I hold the opposite: that the prudent choice is to be a skeptic. .

Mar 14, 2011 – A case can be made that a content-rich approach to the critical elementary school years is the educational equivalent of Pascal's Wager. .

Pascal's wager can be analyzed as a “decision situation in which the possible gain or benefit involved in one of the outcomes swamps all others. .

Jan 3, 2011 – I'd like to request Pascal's Wager. Sure thing, bro. Pascal's saying, "Look. Either God exists, or he doesn't. It has to be one or the other .

The so-called Pascal's wager is a unique blend of theism and probability theory, that is - in my opinion - an archetypal example of that contradiction .

Proof #46 - Ponder Pascal's Wager. You will frequently hear believers make the following rationalization: Suppose you are right. Suppose there is no God. .

A skeptic's guide to the rejection of Christian beliefs.

Jun 3, 2011 – Pascal's Wager and Pandemic Influenza. Severe pandemics happen once every hundred years or so. As we wait for this year's influenza epidemic .

pascal.jpg (1254 bytes) Philosophy 102: Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry Pascal's Wager. Abstract: Since Pascal does not think a sound argument can be .

Jun 16, 2011 – Pascal's religious beliefs wavered during his life, but his "wager" proposition states that, since there's no way to prove God's existence, .

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This is a selection from Pascal's Pensées, translated by W. F. Trotter in 1910. This translation is now in the public domain. .

Jan 22, 2011 – A successful rebuttal to any form of Pascal's Wager, a rebuttal which requires theists to abandon several of their cherished beliefs about .

Apr 14, 2011 – Everyone knows about Pascal's Wager, and almost everyone knows about the criticisms, many summarized in that same Wikipedia article, .

A critical look at Pascal's Wager, the argument that belief in God is rational whether or not there is evidence for God's existence, because it is in our .

Mar 3, 2011 – Pascal's Wager is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal, that, even though the existence .

2 posts - 1 author - Last post: Nov 3, 2010If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, .

Pascal later (in the Pensées) used a probabilistic argument, Pascal's Wager, to justify belief in God and a virtuous life. The work done by Fermat and .

Pascal's Wager, which he used as a 'proof' of God,3 is often used when illustrating decision theory,4 particularly minimizing your losses. .

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