The Wager By Blaise Pascal

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1. Chapter14 “The Wager” by Blaise Pascal NIM : 20191000015 Nama : Andika

2. About the author. . . Early in life Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) pursued interests in physics and mathematics. His theory of conic sections and probability theory are well known; nevertheless, his experimental methodology in physics proved just as influential, especially his research in hydrostatics. His correspondence with Fermat helped establish the foundations of probability theory; his correspondence with Leibniz helped establish the foundations of the cal- culus.

3. Pascal’s Pensées reveals a skepticism with respect to natural theology. Pascal pointed out that the most important things in life cannot be known with certainty ; even so we must make choices. His deep mysticism and religious commitment is reflective of Christian existentialism, and Pascal’s devotional writing is often compared to Kierkegaard’s. The Pensées1 remained fragmented devotional pieces until definitively edited and organized fifty years ago. About the work. . .

4. A betting man. If the game between winning and losing is a lot of distance, would you still want to bet? Because as a gambler it maintains its will. There is no need to be proved as wrong as it has been who chooses the head or tail of larena in any case the city does not know of the gamble itself. But we can blame why it happened. Dwngnan did not pick head or tail. But if it's a choice we must take or be accountable. So it's either heads or tails that's picked wrong. If we say both are wrong, we're not gambling. If you want to be a gambler, you need to know the real course of choice. As such, we are also gamblers. For example, after high school a kid undergraduates an it student who is right he doesn't know anything about it, but he believes it will succeed. That way MHSW is a gambler. Although I did not know he succeeded.

5. According to Pascal, how much can be known about God?

6. We know that there is an infinite, and are ignorant of its nature.So we may well know that there is a God without knowing what He is. Is there not one substantial truth, seeing that there are so many things which are not the truth itself?

7. 2. Reconstruct Pascal’s wager as carefully as possible .

8. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. This being so, who will dare to undertake the decision of the question? Not we, who have no affinity to Him.

9. 3. Explain whether you consider Pascal wager a proof of God existence or not.

10. 4. What major objections can you construct to the wager? Can these objections be countered?

11. Yes; but you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked. Which will you choose then; Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose.

12. Since there is an equal risk of gain and of loss, if you had only to gain two lives, instead of one, you might still wager. But if there were three lives to gain, you would have to play (since you are under the necessity of playing), and you would be imprudent, when you are forced to play, not to chance your life to gain three at a game where there is an equal risk of loss and gain. But there is an eternity of life and happiness.

13. a 5. Clarify the meaning of Pascal’s sentence, “The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.”

14. And thus, when a person is forced to play, he must abandon reason to want to play or not play to preserve his life, because if he is playing he must bet, not that risk for infinite gain, but some of the possibilities will happen as and the other part will not be lost.

15. For it is no use to say it is uncertain if we will gain, and it is certain that we risk, and that the infinite distance between the certainty of what is staked and the uncertainty of what will be gained, equals the finite good which is certainly staked against the uncertain infinite. It is not so, as every player stakes a certainty to gain an uncertainty, and yet he stakes a finite certainty to gain a finite uncertainty, without transgressing against reason. There is not an infinite distance between the certainty staked and the uncertainty of the gain; that is untrue. In truth, there is an infinity between the certainty of gain and the certainty of loss. Example :When you apply for a job it's not just science that's playing a trick, attitude

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