 | Peter Higbie Van Ness - 1992 - 364 síður
...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... | |
 | Peter Kreeft - 1993 - 350 síður
...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... | |
 | Jeff Jordan - 1994 - 180 síður
...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.... | |
 | Pierre-Simon Laplace - 1998 - 292 síður
...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... | |
 | Marvin R. O'Connell - 1997 - 244 síður
...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... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1999 - 326 síður
...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... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 síður
...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 síður
...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... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - 388 síður
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Hammond - 2003 - 308 síður
...is one in your favour, if there were an infinity of infinitely happy life to be won. But here [vi] there is an infinity of infinitely happy life to be...won, one chance of winning against a finite number of losing, and what you are staking is finite. That leaves no choice; [vii] wherever there is infinity,... | |
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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. 