Pascal's Wager

Summary

Pascal's Wager is an argument^[1]. It draws 2,790 Wikipedia views per month (argument category, ranking #2 of 18).^[2]

Key Facts

• Pascal's Wager's field of work was philosophy^[3].
• Pascal's Wager's field of work was theism^[4].
• Pascal's Wager is credited with the discovery of Blaise Pascal^[5].
• Pascal's Wager's instance of is recorded as argument^[6].
• Blaise Pascal is named after Pascal's Wager^[7].
• Pascal's Wager's opposite of is recorded as Atheist's Wager^[8].
• Pascal's Wager's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01fkgj^[9].
• Pascal's Wager's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic^[10].
• Pascal's Wager's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Pascals-wager^[11].
• Pascal's Wager's MathWorld ID is recorded as PascalsWager^[12].
• Pascal's Wager's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as pascal-wager^[13].
• Pascal's Wager's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pascals-Wager^[14].
• Pascal's Wager's Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as pasc-wag^[15].
• Pascal's Wager's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[16].
• Pascal's Wager's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 124196974^[17].
• Pascal's Wager's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Pascal's_Wager^[18].
• Pascal's Wager's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Pascal's_wager^[19].
• Pascal's Wager's RationalWiki ID is recorded as رهان_باسكال^[20].
• Pascal's Wager's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as argomento-della-scommessa^[21].
• Pascal's Wager's Kialo ID is recorded as 5496^[22].

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Career and Affiliations

Fields of work include philosophy^[3], an academic discipline^[23] and theism^[4], a world view^[24].

Works and Contributions

Pascal's Wager is credited with the discovery of Blaise Pascal^[5]. Things named for it include PARI/GP^[25], a free software^[26], founded in 1985^[27].

Why It Matters

Pascal's Wager draws 2,790 Wikipedia views per month (argument category, ranking #2 of 18).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]

Entities named for it include PARI/GP^[25], a free software^[26], founded in 1985^[27].