Assertion: pascal | /r/CapableOf | pose following argument
Facets:
value: in 1657–58
type: TEMPORAL
value: correspondingly little
type: DEGREE
value: to show
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In his Pensées (1657–58), Pascal posed the following argument to show that belief in the Christian religion is rational: If the Christian God does not exist, the agnostic loses little by believing in him and gains correspondingly little by not believing.