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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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Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart

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...
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Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy

Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau - 1999 - 740 pages
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Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources

Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 1998 - 770 pages
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Philosophy: Basic Readings

Nigel Warburton - 1999 - 449 pages
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Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and ...

Lee Dugatkin - 1999 - 232 pages
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Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions

Eleanore Stump, Michael J. Murray - 1999 - 502 pages
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Pensées and Other Writings

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...
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Philosophical Theories of Probability

Donald Gillies - 2002 - 240 pages
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Readings in Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and ...

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...
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal

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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