Pascal, with his wager, attempted to use the newly developing probability theory to argue for a life devoted to religion, on the grounds that even if the probability of success was small, the rewards were infinite.
Pascal, coa súa aposta, empregou a probabilidade para xustificar unha vida dedicada a relixión na terra, xa que mesmo se a probabilidade de éxito era pequena, as recompensas eran infinitas.