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© Michael Lacewing Pascal’s Wager Michael Lacewing

Risk and gambling £10 in one of five places £10 in one of ten places £20 in one of ten places £10 somewhere £100 somewhere Maybe some money somewhere –What to gamble? –Can you believe there is?

The text: how to decide ‘God is, or He is not.’ But to which side shall we incline? 1. Reason can decide nothing here… Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. 2. 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.

The text: the wager 3. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose… 4. But your happiness? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is… 5. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing…

Analysis: decision matrix God existsGod does not exist Wager for GodInfinite gainFinite loss Wager against God Finite or infinite loss Finite gain

The text: objection and reply 6. That is very fine. Yes, I must wager; but I may perhaps wager too much… 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 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.

The text: infinite gain 7. But there is an eternity of life and happiness… there is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite… 8. wherever the infinite is and there is not an infinity of chances of loss against that of gain…you must give all…