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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... hypothesis should be construed as evidence for its truth . It is difficult , in other words , to see why the simplicity of a hypothesis gives us an epistemic reason to believe it . Nevertheless , considerations of simplicity do play an ...
... hypothesis should be construed as evidence for its truth . It is difficult , in other words , to see why the simplicity of a hypothesis gives us an epistemic reason to believe it . Nevertheless , considerations of simplicity do play an ...
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... hypothesis makes some appeal , however small , to your belief.35 A person for whom the Christian hypothesis is the only live one among the salvific religious hypotheses is someone for whom the option between Christian belief and ...
... hypothesis makes some appeal , however small , to your belief.35 A person for whom the Christian hypothesis is the only live one among the salvific religious hypotheses is someone for whom the option between Christian belief and ...
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Essays on Pascal's Wager Jeff Jordan. on the basis of the chosen hypothesis having a significant feature no other hypothesis has . The most complex hypothesis would also have such a feature except that it does not exist ( just as the ...
Essays on Pascal's Wager Jeff Jordan. on the basis of the chosen hypothesis having a significant feature no other hypothesis has . The most complex hypothesis would also have such a feature except that it does not exist ( just as the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Wager in Pascal and Others | 11 |
The Logic Of Pascals Wager | 21 |
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