Midterm #1: Blaise Pascal
T/F According to Pascal, if I bet against God's existence and I happen to be right, then I gain everything.
False
T/F According to Pascal, if I bet against God's existence and I'm wrong, I don't lose anything.
False
T/F According to Pascal, if I bet on God's existence and I am wrong, then I have wasted my life.
False
T/F According to Pascal, the wager on God's existence, as far as your chances of winning are concerned, is more like a lotto.
False
T/F According to Pascal, we are totally incapable of knowing, on our own, what God is, but we can at least know if he exists or not.
False
T/F Pascal is confident that if we do not know God, at least we will,l by our own mental efforts, be able to know God in the future.
False
T/F Pascal seems to be completely unaware of all the evil done in the name of religion.
False
T/F Pascal thinks humans are almost totally unlike God.
False
T/F Pascal's "Wager" argues that religious issues are nothing but subjective preferences.
False
T/F Pascal's "Wager" is an argument for agnosticism.
False
T/F Pascal's wager argument was not intended for his gambling friends.
False
T/F According to Pascal, adopting a different lifestyle can help one to be more open to his wager argument.
True
T/F According to Pascal, atheism, just like theism, is a belief, not a form of knowledge.
True
T/F According to Pascal, to be an atheist is to be an unwise gambler.
True
T/F In Pascal's discussion of the "three lives," one life is an endless afterlife.
True
T/F In Pascal's discussion of the "three lives," one life is the present one that I live.
True
T/F On Pascal's view, the only way we can ever know God is if reveals Himself to us.
True
T/F Pascal's "Wager" is also a historical text on Probability Theory and Decision Theory.
True
T/F The famous contemporary scientist Carl Sagan agrees with Pascal that atheism is a belief, just like theism.
True
T/F Waking up or not waking up is a forced option or choice.
True