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Pascal, Blaise
- A seventeenth-century French mathematician, scientist, and religious thinker. Pascal came to believe that reason alone could not satisfy people's hopes and aspirations and that religious faith was therefore necessary. His religious thoughts are collected in ʱԲé( Thoughts ).
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Notes
“Pascal's wager” refers to Pascal's idea that it is prudent to believe in God's existence, as little can be lost if there is no God, and eternal happiness can be gained if there is one.
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Pascal, Blaise, 150, 151, 160.
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Pascal, Blaise, precocity of, 392.
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Pascal, Blaise, influence on Gibbon, 119.
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Pascal, Blaise, ʱԲé, 91, 91 n.,
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