| Marvin R. O'Connell - 1997 - 244 pages
...win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not 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. That leaves no choice; wherever there is infinity, and... | |
| Nigel Warburton - 1999 - 449 pages
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| Lee Dugatkin - 1999 - 232 pages
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| Blaise Pascal - 1999 - 326 pages
...were an infinitely happy infinity of life to be won. But here there is an infinitely happy infinity of life to be won, one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you are staking is finite. That removes all choice: wherever there is infinity and... | |
| Donald Gillies - 2002 - 240 pages
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| Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pages
...life of 124 125 infinite happiness to be won. But here there is an infinite life of infinite happiness to be won, one chance of winning against a finite number of chances of losing, and what you stake is finite. All bets are off wherever there is an infinity and wherever there... | |
| James Franklin - 2002 - 520 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.''4 This is an argument in what is now called decision theory... | |
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