01:730:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 2016 World Series, Basic Belief, Great Pumpkin
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Pascal compares believing in god to being a bet, and the wager is to either benefit or. Clifford thinks that it is wrong to believe on insufficient evidence because investigation: pascal likens the decision whether to believe in god to a bet. Pascal"s wager as a bet in this sense. have no benefits at all. He explains that there is nothing to lose by wanting to believe that there is a god. He then goes to explain that if you keep reassuring yourself that you do believe, then, This is not a traditional win-lose bet; however, it is a win-gain nothing. He is a believer on finding a baseline for evidence to believe in something seemingly untrue. Clifford making by using this quotation? may be overlooked or viewed as an opinion when an individual does not consider the logistics of something and instead simply chooses to believe in it and follows the lead of others.