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5. Objections to Pascal's Wager ... We can think of Pascal's Wager as having three premises: the first concerns the decision matrix of rewards, the second concerns the probability that you should give to God's existence, and the third is a maxim about rational decision-making.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
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Blaise Pascal's 'wager' for belief in a God ... In response to Nicholas Rescher's Pascal's Wager: A Study Of Practical Reasoning In Philosophical Theology, I propose to defend the traditional view that Pascal's Wager argument is almost entirely worthless--at least from the theological standpoint.
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www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html
www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html
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And no matter what, it presents a successful rebuttal to any form of Pascal's Wager, by demonstrating that unbelief might still be the safest bet after all (since we do not know whose assumptions are correct, ... And this makes perfect sense of many mysteries, thus explaining what theists struggle to explain themselves.
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www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/heaven....
www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/heaven.html
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Pascal's Wager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit ) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager a...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
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Pascal's Wager is a "non-traditional" argument for belief in God; ... Pascal doesn't quite explain this, but he goes through a sequence of arguments that assume that one does risk. What one seems to risk, in the scenarios that Pascal discusses, is one's life. But Pascal assumes that a finite life is only of finite value.
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brindedcow.umd.edu/236/pascal.html
brindedcow.umd.edu/236/pascal.html
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What is Pascal's Wager?; ... Pascal's Wager ver. 1.2 by George Atkinson; Most atheists love to point out that Pascal's wager is flawed. But, I think they are overlooking something, or worse, being intellectually dishonest in their approach to ... This type of god doesn't explain the problem of evil and is highly illogical.
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www.thewhyman.jesusanswers.com/whats_new.html
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[i] See, for the wager to work, Pascal has to make a fundamental (not explicitly stated) assumption: that the a priori probabilities of God’s existence or inexistence are the same, a Solomonic 50 ... of the supernatural, that is of something we have absolutely no evidence of, which is not necessary to explain the world,
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www.freethoughtfirefighters.org/a_refutation_of_pascals...
www.freethoughtfirefighters.org/a_refutation_of_pascals_wager_Massimo_Pigliucci.htm
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Theories explain facts. Scientific theories are not like common, everyday, theories about why Laura puts up with Bush or why ... Now, about Pascal's Wager. My main issue with Pascal's wager is that it assumes a false duality ? that you are either with God, or you are against God. God here means the Christian God.
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www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/nov/article294.html
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The Argument from Pascal's Wager ... Most philosophers think Pascal's Wager is the weakest of all arguments for believing in the existence of God. Pascal thought it was the strongest. ... To understand Pascal's Wager you have to understand the background of the argument. Pascal lived in a time of great scepticism.
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www.peterkreeft.com/topics/pascals-wager.htm
www.peterkreeft.com/topics/pascals-wager.htm
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