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" ... an infinity of infinitely happy life to be won. But here there is an infinity of infinitely happy life to be won, one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you are staking is finite. "
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution - Page 165
by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd - 2008 - 342 pages
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Pascal's Anguish and Joy

Charles Sherrard MacKenzie - 1973 - 296 pages
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Risk and Rationality

Diané Collinson - 1980 - 168 pages
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Emily Dickinson

Donna Dickenson - 1985 - 160 pages
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Neither Angel Nor Beast: The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal

Francis X. J. Coleman - 1986 - 227 pages
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A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations

A. J. Ayer, Jane O'Grady - 1994 - 544 pages
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Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament

Peter Higbie Van Ness - 1992 - 364 pages
...win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do no hesitate then; wager that he does exist.... Here there is an infinity of infinitely happy life to be...chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you are staking is finite. Ibid., pp. 150-51 (418). 28. Nicholas Rescher, Pascal's...
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Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées Edited, Outlined, and Explained

Peter Kreeft - 1993 - 350 pages
...only two lives for one you could still wager, but supposing you stood to win three? . . . But here there is an infinity of infinitely happy life to be...chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you are staking is finite. That leaves no choice; wherever there is infinity, and...
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Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's Wager

Jeff Jordan - 1994 - 180 pages
...only one in your favor, if there were an infinity of infinitely happy life to be won. [4] But here there is an infinity of infinitely happy life to be...chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you are staking is [still] finite. That leaves no choice . . . you must give everything....
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Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from ...

Pierre-Simon Laplace - 1998 - 292 pages
...there is one in your favour, if there were an infinity of infinitely happy life to be won. But here there is an infinity of infinitely happy life to be...chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you are staking is finite. That leaves no choice; wherever there is infinity, and...
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Pensées

Blaise Pascal - 1995 - 372 pages
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