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Перевод: wager
[существительное] пари; ставка ; [глагол] держать пари; биться об заклад; рисковать
Тезаурус:
- Newman's "venture", like Pascal's wager, identified belief as a commitment undergone without the certainty of God's existence - indeed a commitment that makes sense only without that certainty.
- Paulos is admirable on the nature of coincidence - the inevitability of improbable events - on the logic of gambling in its various forms from coin-tossing to the Stock Exchange; the Gambler's Fallacy (the belief that when a coin has landed heads several times over, there is an increased probability that tails will turn up on the next throw); Pascal's wager; Condorcet's paradox; the prisoner's dilemma.
- Even if the chance of success in a wager is very slight, the bet should be accepted if the reward of the wager is disproportionately high in relation to the amount staked.
- Skelton, on Major Wager, and Geoff Billington, with Rhapsody, were among 10 who finished equal third with one mistake.
- Ehret's enthusiasm over rare blooms was such as to prompt a daily walk from Chelsea to Parsons Green to watch the progress of Magnolia grandiflora in Sir Charles Wager's garden.
- Comments in several papers have presented this policy as akin to Pascal's wager, a kind of philosophical joke which the 17th-century philosopher Blaise Pascal used to prove the existence of God.
- One explanation could be that the prospect of defeat now seems to him, if not inevitable, then at least sufficiently likely to be worth a contingency wager.
- Major Wager pays off for Skelton
- Mr Ra won his wager by building a 40-foot-high pyramid in Salt Lake City, making sacramental wine in it, and selling the stuff to religious groups - wine made in pyramids was said by the ancient Egyptians to have supernatural powers.
- All our discussions of faith as trust, venture or wager have accepted that to subscribe to theism must represent a reasonable commitment on the part of the believer.
- Whatever the level of probability that God exists, in Pascal's view, one should believe in God, one should wager.
- We start with a famous passage of the French religious thinker Blaise Pascal's Thoughts , in which the seventeenth-century writer compared belief in a God to a bet or wager.
- Consider any gift; I would wager that the gift that means most would not necessarily be the most expensive present but the one bought with sacrifice, expressing care and love.
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