Pascalian

I have come to realize there are two philosophies of bicycle mechanics: what one might term Pascalian and Cartesian.

Cool Tools 2009

The Pascalian principle that wagering on a notional truth is as good as treating it as a certainty holds for the determination we have at Cannes to outstare a basilisk movie, or to die in the attempt.

GreenCine Daily: Weekend fests and events. 2007

Rationality and Religious Theism, for instance, Joshua L. Golding adopts a broadly Pascalian strategy in defense of what he calls “religious theism.”

Fideism Amesbury, Richard 2009

The fideist, decisionist, and absurdist traditions in Christianity seem so much more compelling to me (were I to choose): Pauline conversion; Tertullian apologetics; Pascalian wagering; Kierkegaardian fearfulness and faith-leaping; Calvinist depravity and helplessness.

John Seery: An Egghead's Eggnog Tidings 2008

To consider a contrast, French thought falls under two types — the Cartesian, and the Pascalian.

Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

To consider a contrast, French thought falls under two types — the Cartesian, and the Pascalian.

Democracy, evolution, and progress Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

Recent work on Pascalian wagering has a bearing on work on the nature of faith (is it voluntary or involuntary?), its value (when, if ever, is it a virtue?), and relation to evidence (insofar as faith involves belief, is it possible to have faith without evidence?).

Philosophy of Religion Taliaferro, Charles 2007

A proto-Pascalian passage from Descartes Second Replies:

Cartesian Assent 2006

Duhem has a Pascalian view of the human mind, which means he thinks there are two major kinds of mentality.

German Science 2005

This is Duhem's Pascalianism; in the Pascalian aphorism he likes to quote, with regard to the basic principles common sense provides, "We have an impotence to prove that is invincible to any dogmatism and an idea of truth that is invincible to any skepticism."

The White Shell; and Duhem's Realism 2005