Assertion: pascal's wager | /r/HasProperty | valid
Facets:
value: importantly
type: DEGREE
value: as pascal's original formulation
type: OTHER
value: exactly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Explicitly addressing the question of inability to believe, Pascal argues that if the wager is valid, the inability to believe is irrational, and therefore must be caused by feelings: "your inability to believe, because reason compels you to [believe] and yet you cannot, [comes] from your passions.
text: A number of authors who have been otherwise critical of the Wager have explicitly conceded that the Wager is valid—e.g.
text: Importantly, because Pascal's Wager can only work if you improve the prior probability of any one god's existence over the others (which generally doesn't happen in any theological argument) this wager is exactly as valid as Pascal's original formulation.