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May 2, 1998 · Pascal’s Wager. First published Sat May 2, 1998; substantive revision Sun Sep 11, 2022. “Pascal’s Wager” is the name given to an argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. The name is somewhat misleading, for in a single section of his Pensées, Pascal apparently presents four such ...
Blaise Pascal (19 Juni 1623 – 19 Agustus 1662) berasal dari Prancis. Minat utamanya ialah filsafat dan agama, sedangkan hobinya yang lain adalah matematika dan geometri proyektif. Bersama dengan Pierre de Fermat menemukan teori tentang probabilitas. Pada awalnya minat riset dari Pascal lebih banyak berfokus pada bidang ilmu pengetahuan dan ...
Sep 19, 2023 · Blaise Pascal. To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal ( 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian. Note: All quotes from the Pensées are on that page.
Blaise Pascal fue concebido el 19 de junio de 1623, en una familia honorable en Clermont (ahora Clermont-Ferrand) en la zona de Auvernia del macizo central francés. Su padre, Étienne Pascal, a raíz de haber recibido una formación como especialista en derecho en París, fue un alto cargo que se desempeñó como juez de mal hábito de la ...
Jun 11, 2018 · PASCAL, BLAISE (b.Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Frnace, 19 Jume 1623; d.Paris, France 19 August 1662) mathematics, mechanical computation, physics, epistemology. Varied, original, and important, although often the subject of controversy, Pascal’s scientific work was intimately linked with other aspects of his writings with his personal life, and with the development of several areas of ...
Jun 19, 2023 · Vatican City, Jun 19, 2023 / 05:45 am. Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.”
Pascal’s Wager about God. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) offers a pragmatic reason for believing in God: even under the assumption that God’s existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make betting on theism rational. The super-dominance form of the argument conveys the basic Pascalian idea, the expectations ...
