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Pascal's Wager

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

James Cargile
James Cargile
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Corcoran Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia.
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A. Pascal's statement of his wager argument is couched in terms of the theory of probability and the theory of games, and the exposition is unclear and unnecessarily complicated. The following is a ‘creative’ reformulation of the argument designed to avoid some of the objections which have been or might be raised against the original.

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Philosophy , Volume 41 , Issue 157 , July 1966 , pp. 250 - 257
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1966

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