In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

[Q]: In one work, this thinker consults with a monk to better understand the concept of proximate power. This thinker divided hypotheses into three categories depending on what absurdities would be implied by accepting the hypothesis as true or false. This man participated in the Formulary Controversy with a series of letters in which he attacked Antonio Escobar's use of casuistry and lambasted the moral lapses of the Jesuits. After a carriage accident and a subsequent religious vision, he published his Memorial, which led to him taking up the cause of the Jansenists. He is the namesake of an idea that suggests that the belief in God represents the possibility of infinite gain while only imposing a finite loss. For 10 points, name this author of the Provincial Letters and Pensees, a French philosopher who is the namesake of a "wager" and a mathematical triangle.
[A]: Social Science

[Q]: The layout of this painting mirrors the plan for St. Peter's Basilica. In the center of this painting, a man wearing a purple shirt slumps against a box, scribbling on a sheet of paper at the bottom of some stairs. To the right of him, a man dressed in blue reclines on the stairs while reading a sheet of paper in his hand. On the left side of this painting, a small crowd gathers around (*) Pythagoras as he writes in a large book while kneeling. To the right, a small crowd watches as Euclid bends down and draws on a small tablet on the floor. For ten points, name this painting by Raphael depicting Plato and Aristotle walking together through the title building.
[A]: Fine Arts

[Q]: In one of his books, Nanda and Shridaman kill each other in a swordfight. In another, Madame Houpfle begs to have her jewels stolen by a man who then impersonates the Marquis de Venosta. In another novel by this author, the organist Wendell Kretschmar is a big influence on the composer of "Apocalypsis cum figuris," and in another, Christian begins to look English and Hanno dies young to extinguish the family line. Such characters as Serenus Zeitblom, Felix Krull, Adrian Leverkuhn, and the Buddenbrooks family appear in his books. FTP, name this author who also created Gustave von Aschenbach in Death in Venice.
[A]:
Literature