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    What is Pascal's Wager?

    Question #103707. Asked by Humanist. (Mar 10 09 1:07 PM)


    Midget40

    		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" as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose. It was set out in note 233 of his Pensées, a posthumously published collection of notes made by Pascal in his last years as he worked on a treatise on Christian apologetics.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

    Mar 10 09, 1:10 PM
    daBomb619

    		Pascal's Wager is a suggestion proposed by Blaise Pascal that says that one should wager that God exists because such a person so wagering has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

    Mar 10 09, 1:11 PM

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