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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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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Pascal's Wager (Why God is a safe bet) ... This argument is known as Pascal's Wager. It has several flaws. ... Some have suggested that the person who chooses to believe based on Pascal's Wager, can then somehow make the transition to truly believing. Unfortunately, most atheists don't find it possible to make that leap.
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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...
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Pascal or PASCAL may refer to: • Pascal (unit) (Pa), the SI unit of pressure (equivalent to one newton per square meter) • Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus...
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"If you believe in God and turn out to be incorrect, you have lost nothing -- but if you don't believe in God and turn out to be incorrect, you will go to hell. Therefore it is foolish to be an atheist." Paraphrase of Pascal's Wager.
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Pascal's Wager - an alternative ... Pascal's Wager is well-known to many atheists. On the internet, it is probably the most common argument heard from Christians, and the regulars of newsgroups such as alt.atheism feel cheated if a week goes by without someone bringing it up (this rarely happens), only to be shot down in...
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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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examples include William James's will to believe and Blaise Pascal's wager. ... Some acknowledge that Pascal's wager cannot decide among religions, yet maintain that "it at least gets us to theism" (Jordan 1994b, Armour-Garb 1999). The idea is that Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Moslems, and devil-worshippers can...
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Pascal's wager n. An argument according to which belief in God is rational whether or not God exists, since falsely believing that God exists leads to ... Dictionary: Pascal's wager...
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