Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's WagerJeff Jordan Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 - Всего страниц: 168 Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first in-depth look at moral objections to the Wager. |
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... chance . We have no good reason for picking one half as the chance of God's existence . This argument can work only for people who are , in the strongest sense , exactly as unsure whether God exists as they are unsure whether he does ...
... chance . We have no good reason for picking one half as the chance of God's existence . This argument can work only for people who are , in the strongest sense , exactly as unsure whether God exists as they are unsure whether he does ...
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... chance of gain and loss , [ 1 ] if you stood to win only two lives for one you could still wager [ i.e. , it would not be irrational to wager ] . . . [ 2 ] but supposing you stood to win three ? . . . it would be unwise of you ... not ...
... chance of gain and loss , [ 1 ] if you stood to win only two lives for one you could still wager [ i.e. , it would not be irrational to wager ] . . . [ 2 ] but supposing you stood to win three ? . . . it would be unwise of you ... not ...
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... chance , no matter how small ( " one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing " ) , the expected value of betting on God will be infinite , since the value of the outcome is itself infinite . Thus , in this case ...
... chance , no matter how small ( " one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing " ) , the expected value of betting on God will be infinite , since the value of the outcome is itself infinite . Thus , in this case ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Wager in Pascal and Others | 11 |
The Logic Of Pascals Wager | 21 |
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