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Pascal's Wager

Blaise Pascal: The Wager

The Wager is not easy to understand and has been dismissed by logicians. Pascal’s pages contain three distinct arguments each of which is valid. Each has the form of a decision-theoretic argument. Decision theory is the theory of deciding what to do when it is uncertain what will happen. Given an exhaustive list of possible hypotheses about the way the world is, the observation or the experimental data relevant to these hypotheses, together with an inventory of possible decisions, and the various utilities of making these decisions in various possible states of the world: determine the best decision.

What is interesting about the religious writings of Blaise Pascal is the manner in which they show the deep combination in his personality of both the skepticism of the scientist and the faith of the religious convert.

Pascal is often compared to the Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in terms of his belief in the need for existential religious......


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