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Pascal's wager

Practical argument for belief in God formulated by Blaise Pascal. In his Pensées (1657–58), Pascal posed the following argument to show that belief in the Christian religion is rational: If the Christian God does not exist, the agnostic loses little by believing in him and gains correspondingly little by not believing. If the Christian God does exist, the agnostic gains eternal life by believing in him and loses an infinite good by not believing. William James objected to the argument that it supported belief in any religion that promised an eternal afterlife. Others have objected that though the argument does give one a reason for believing in the Christian God, it does not make that belief “rational” in the proper sense.

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No references found	A few decades later, Blaise Pascal - now more famous for Pascal's wager, which advises you to place your bets on God's existence and live accordingly - devised a table of probabilities now known as Pascal's triangle, which allows gamblers to calculate the probability that a certain sequence of numbers will occur (for the record, there are 7,059,052 ways of choosing six numbers out of a sequence of 44). Win some, lose some by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evidence notwithstanding, one might consider a version of Pascal's wager when it comes to the issue of global warming: Blaise Pascal had posited that it is better to believe in God than not because if God exists, you're in good shape for believing, and if you don't . No hot air by Vasilash, Gary S. / Automotive Design & Production Pascal's Wager Pascal suggested that under conditions of existential uncertainty, the most effective heuristical device for deciding whether or not to live a godly and righteous life is to consider the practice of wagering. Probability, decision theory, and a curricular approach to developing ... by Wagner, Paul A. / Journal of Thought	Pas de Deux Pas de Trois Pas-dammim Pas-de-Calais pas-de-souris Pasach Pasadena Pasaeli Pasagshak River State Recreation Site pasan Pasargadae Pasay PASC Pascagoula Pascal Pascal distribution Pascal Grousset Pascal P4 Pascal Plus Pascal rules Pascal's identity Pascal's Law Pascal's limaçon Pascal's Theorem Pascal's Triangle Pascal's wager Pascal+CSP Pascal, Blaise Pascal- Pascal-80 Pascal-F Pascal-FC Pascal-Linda Pascal-m Pascal-P Pascal-S Pascal-SC Pascal/L Pascal/R Pascaline Pasch paschal Paschal Cycle Paschal II Paschen bodies Paschen series Paschen's Law Paschen's rule Paschen, Friedrich Louis Carl Heinrich Paschen-Back Effect Paschen-Runge mounting	Pascal rules Pascal second Pascal second Pascal second Pascal second Pascal Source Code Pascal theorem Pascal triangle Pascal triangle Pascal wager Pascal wager Pascal Web Unit Pascal's calculator Pascal's Gambit Pascal's Gambit Pascal's identity Pascal's law Pascal's law Pascal's law Pascal's law of fluid pressures Pascal's limaçon Pascal's principle Pascal's principle Pascal's principle Pascal's rule Pascal's theorem Pascal's triangle Pascal's triangle Pascal's triangles Pascal's triangles Pascal's wager Pascal+CSP Pascal, Blaise Pascal, Blaise Pascal, Blaise Pascal- Pascal-80 Pascal-F Pascal-FC Pascal-Linda Pascal-m Pascal-P Pascal-S Pascal-SC Pascal-second Pascal-second Pascal-second Pascal-second Pascal/L Pascal/R Pascaline Pascalite Pascalite Pascalite Pascals Pascals Pascals Pascals law Pascals law Pascals law Pascals triagle

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A few decades later, Blaise Pascal - now more famous for Pascal's wager, which advises you to place your bets on God's existence and live accordingly - devised a table of probabilities now known as Pascal's triangle, which allows gamblers to calculate the probability that a certain sequence of numbers will occur (for the record, there are 7,059,052 ways of choosing six numbers out of a sequence of 44).

Win some, lose some by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evidence notwithstanding, one might consider a version of Pascal's wager when it comes to the issue of global warming: Blaise Pascal had posited that it is better to believe in God than not because if God exists, you're in good shape for believing, and if you don't .

No hot air by Vasilash, Gary S. / Automotive Design & Production

Pascal's Wager Pascal suggested that under conditions of existential uncertainty, the most effective heuristical device for deciding whether or not to live a godly and righteous life is to consider the practice of wagering.

Probability, decision theory, and a curricular approach to developing ... by Wagner, Paul A. / Journal of Thought