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	Pascal's Wager (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Wagering for God superdominates wagering against God: the worst outcome associated with wagering for God (status quo) is at least as good as the best outcome associated with wagering against God (status quo); and if God exists, the result of wagering for God is strictly better that the result of wagering against God.
		Since wagering for God is rationally required even in the hypothetical case in which one of the prizes is three lives, then all the more it is rationally required in the actual case, in which one of the prizes is an eternity of life (salvation).
		Their point is that there are strategies besides wagering for God that also have infinite expectation — namely, mixed strategies, whereby you do not wager for or against God outright, but rather choose which of these actions to perform on the basis of the outcome of some chance device.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pascal-wager (5547 words)

	Wager - LoveToKnow 1911
		Wagers in the ordinary sense of the term are dealt with under the headings Gaming and Betting; but the method of wagering - in principle the putting of a decision to the hazard - has had extended employment in various cases which may be noticed here.
		The right of "wager of battle" was claimed as late as 1818 by a man named Thornton, who had been acquitted at assizes of a charge of murdering a girl named Ashford; her brother brought an "appeal," and the judges upheld Thornton's claim, but the appellant then withdrew.
		In the wager of law the defendant, with eleven compurgators, appeared in court, and the defendant swore that he did not owe the debt, or (in detinue) that he did not detain the plaintiff's chattel; while the compurgators swore that they believed that he spoke the truth.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Wager (998 words)

	Illinois Racing Board Basic Rules for Wagering (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This wager is usually conducted with a carryover pool which means if there are no winners, all monies are held over until the next day the wager is offered.
		This wager can be conducted with a carryover pool which means if there are no winners, all monies are held over until the next day the wager is offered.
		This wager may be run with a carryover pool which means if there are no winners, all monies are held over until the next day the wager is offered.
	www.state.il.us /agency/irb/racing/wagering/mutuals.htm (1081 words)

	Pascal's Wager Is A Possible Bet (But Not A Very Good One)
		The wager is useless because of a structural breakdown in the conditions that determine the relations between the act of betting and the payoff matrix options.
		Moreover, it is not even the case that the wager argument is a good argument given both that it is "a possible bet" and that "alternative" gods and wagers are ignored.
		Referring to the payoff table for Pascal's wager, we see that the relevant possible states of the world are that God exists and that God does not exist, and the possible actions between which we are to decide are belief in God and non-belief in God.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/graham_oppy/p_wager.html (6248 words)

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		Proposition wagers are based on the outcome of events that happen each year, such as the Super Bowl and the Kentucky Derby.
		Odds change daily and all wagers are considered action at the odds quoted at the time of the sports wager.
		If you have ever participated in paramutual wagering, you will usually see which horse or which dog has the best chance of winning just based on the fact that 70% of the people are picking that horse/dog.
	www.lycos.com /info/wager--miscellaneous.html (373 words)

	Legal Definition of Wager
		WAGER - A wager is a bet; a contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
		And wagers are against public policy if they are in restraint of marriage made as to the mode of playing an illegal game or on an abstract speculative question of law or judicial practice, not arising out of circumstances in which the parties have a real interest.
		Wagers as to the sex of an individual or whether an unmarried woman had borne or would have a child are illegal; as unnecessarily leading to painful and indecent considerations.
	www.lectlaw.com /def2/w034.htm (407 words)

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		Pascal's Wager is an answer to the challenge, "Give me one good reason for believing in the Christian God rather than nothing." It's an argument of Christian evangelism, not a generalized proof of the truth of Christianity over all other religions.
		As formulated by Pascal, the wager doesn't address the problem of choosing among several religions, but then it doesn't address the problem of choosing among several CASE tools, either; neither is its purpose.
		The Wager appeals not to a high ideal, like faith, hope, love, or proof, but to a low one: the instinct for self-preservation, the desire to be happy and not unhappy.
	www.lycos.com /info/wager--pascals-wager.html (498 words)

	Temple Times: Director Douglas C. Wager
		Wager is best known for his tenure as artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., one of the country’s premier regional theaters, where he built his world-class reputation over the course of his 25 seasons with the company.
		Wager recently moved to Philadelphia to serve as director in residence for the Prince Music Theatre, where this past season he directed It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues and the world premiere of The Great Ostrovsky by Cy Coleman and Avery Corman.
		Wager has considerable experience as an educator with guest teaching engagements at leading professional theater training programs across the country.
	www.temple.edu /temple_times/9-2-04/wager.html (524 words)

	Pascal's Wager
		Therefore it is foolish to be an atheist." Paraphrase of Pascal's Wager.
		However, he is best known in philosophical and theological circles for Pascal's Wager: the suggestion that it is better to believe in the existence of God then to be an Atheist, for the simple reason that it is the bet that gives the better chance for a good outcome.
		If what was at stake in the wager was one or two extra lifetimes of living, then one would still be wise to believe in God in the hope that he did exist, and that one would be rewarded.
	www.religioustolerance.org /pascal_w.htm (3219 words)

	Pascal's Wager [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		According to intellectualism, deliberately choosing which beliefs to hold is practically impossible; according to the many-gods objection, Pascal’s wager begs the question and hence is irrational; according to evidentialism, Pascalian reasoning is epistemically irresponsible and hence immoral; and according to various paradoxes, reference to infinite values is decision-theoretic non-sense.
		Pascal's compatriot Denis Diderot replied to the wager that an ayatollah or "imam could just as well reason the same way." His point is that decision theory cannot decide among the various religions practiced in the world; it gives no warrant for believing in Pascal's Catholicism, or even in a generic Judeo-Christianity.
		Some Pascalians, while acknowledging that the Wager might be unsound for today’s multi-culturally sophisticated, maintain that the Wager is sound relative to Pascal and his peers in the 1600s, when Catholicism and agnosticism were the only possibilities (Rescher 1985, Franklin 1998).
	www.iep.utm.edu /p/pasc-wag.htm (2845 words)

	Pascal's Wager
		We find in it the extraordinary confluence of several strands in intellectual thought: the justification of theism; probability theory and decision theory, used here for almost the first time in history; pragmatism; voluntarism (the thesis that belief is a matter of the will); and the use of the concept of infinity.
		Since wagering for God is rationally required even in the hypothetical case in which one of the prizes is three lives, then all the more it is rationally required in the actual case, in which one of the prizes is eternal life (salvation).
		Their point is that there are strategies besides wagering for God that also have infinite expectation---namely, mixed strategies, whereby you do not wager for or against God outright, but rather choose which of these actions to perform on the basis of the outcome of some chance device.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/sum1999/entries/pascal-wager (5398 words)

	Argument from Pascal's Wager by Peter Kreeft
		The Wager appeals not to a high ideal, like faith, hope, love, or proof, but to a low one: the instinct for self-preservation, the desire to be happy and not unhappy.
		It is not his refutation of atheism as a foolish wager (that comes last) but his refutation of agnosticism as impossible.
		Once it is decided that we must wager; once it is decided that there are only two options, theism and atheism, not three, theism, atheism, and agnosticism; then the rest of the argument is simple.
	www.peterkreeft.com /topics/pascals-wager.htm (1962 words)

	Philosophy of Religion .info - Arguments for the Existence of God - Pascal's Wager
		Pascal's Wager is an attempt to justify belief in God not with an appeal to evidence for his existence but rather with an appeal to self-interest.
		It is the objection that Pascal’s Wager illicitly assumes a Christian view of the criteria for entrance into heaven, i.e.
		As it is better to gain little or nothing than it is to lose little or nothing, this objection concludes that it is wagering on atheism, rather than wagering on theism, that is the rational course of action.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /pascalswager.html (1249 words)

	How To Wager
		Pari-mutuel wagering means "betting among ourselves." The odds are dynamic and are solely dependent upon how you, the participants, place your wagers.
		When you're at the track or a simulcast wagering facility, the track extracts a commission from all wagers made, and re-distributes the remaining funds (or wagering "pool") among the winners.
		Wagers must be placed before the first of the three races.
	www.dmtc.com /handicapping/howto.php (1125 words)

	wager
		Foster and Wager Inc. is a highly respected manufacturers representative company with a focus on the electronics industry since the mid 's.
		Wager is one of Vancouver's most experienced and successful classic rock bands, featuring.
		Pascal's Wager is the French physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian Blaise Pascal 's application of decision theory to the belief in God.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /news-events/posts/7694.html (861 words)

	There are only four possibilities, four and only four
		The Wager as it is so called was one such thought on one of Pascal’s scraps of paper.
		Pascal’s wager is an appeal neither to man’s scientific prowess (to competence at factual inquiry) nor to his “better self” (to human idealism), but to rational self-interest.
		Pascal’s Wager as an argument for God’s existence does have a logical consistency to it if (and this is a large if) the Wager is somewhat narrowly defined and the audience to which it is addressed is very narrowly defined.
	www.trinitysem.edu /journal/5-1/5_Petersons_PascalsWager.htm (5821 words)

	Amazon.com: Wager: Books: Metsy Hingle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The path to healing and self-acceptance lends this marvelous depth and believability as she struggles with the past and with issues of the heart.
		Wager was a well written book with just a few slow parts.
		Wager is a good book for anyone wanting to read of romance and mystery.
	www.amazon.com /Wager-Metsy-Hingle/dp/1551668262 (1892 words)

	Sports-Bets-Online----Rules and Wagers
		After the opening bell, the bout is official for wagering purposes, regardless of the length of the fight.
		Wager must be placed at least ten minutes before the start of the race to be valid.
		When wagering you have the option of stipulating that if your wager wins, ties or is cancelled, you would like to place any amount that you wish, within your balance, on any other team that you choose.
	home.cfl.rr.com /invisionmm/bets/rules-wagers.html (2039 words)

	\| Churchill Downs \| Kentucky Derby 127 \| Derby Coverage \| Future Wager \|
		The minimum wager is $2 and the Kentucky Derby Future Wager is a win wager only.
		Those interests will include 23 horses chosen by a three- member committee of racing analysts and handicappers and the 24th wagering interest will be a mutuel field that consists of all other three-year-old thoroughbreds.
		The horses included in each of the wagering pools will be listed alphabetically and will appear in the daily race program with morning line odds established by Churchill Downs and Kentucky Derby handicapper Mike Battaglia.
	www.kentuckyderby.com /2001/coverage/future/future_faq.html (700 words)

	Pascals Wager
		FWIW: "Pascal's Wager is the name given to an argument due to BlaisePascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God.
		Pascal's wager is posed to someone trying to choose between belief in the Christian God and belief in no god.
		If a reader does not accept those assumptions then the wager argument fails because it is subject to the BifurcationFallacy and the AntecedentAssumedFallacy.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?PascalsWager (893 words)

	Pascal's Wager
		So it's not surprising that he uses the device of a wager to try to convince people, who are already gambling, to take a chance on God.
		There are really two other versions of this wager in Paragraph 418, but they just build on the point made above that if one has to bet (and we do), then it's always more rational to wager on an infinite gain.
		Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. "That is very fine.
	www.saintmarys.edu /~incandel/pascalswager.html (1392 words)

	What is Wrong with Pascal's Wager?
		The problem is that the wager claims to save one from judgment, when, according to biblical Christianity, it does no such thing...
		However, the unstated assumption in the wager is that belief in God guarantees one a place in heaven.
		The problem with Pascal's wager is that the assumption that belief in God is sufficient to get one into heaven is false.
	www.godandscience.org /apologetics/pascals_wager.html (1715 words)

	\| Kentucky Derby \| Kentucky Derby 126 Future Wager \|
		The Kentucky Derby Future Wager is a pari-mutuel wager offered by Churchill Downs that allows racing fans to wager early on prospective entrants in Kentucky Derby 126, which will be run on May 6, 2000.
		There will be three separate wagering pools for the Kentucky Derby Future Wager in the months leading up to the race with the winner of each pool being determined by the official first place finisher in Kentucky Derby 126 on May 6.
		The payout on the winning wagers in each of the three Kentucky Derby Future Wager pools will be determined by the final odds at the time of closing of each of the respective pools.
	www.kentuckyderby.com /2000/pools/faq_126.html (782 words)

	Gregg Martin WAGER
		It's possible that another Wager brother moved to New York with Ezra, Joseph and Andrew (in fact there is even evidence of a Wager brother named Benjamin in New Jersey) and his name doesn't appear on census records because he lived in the household of one of his other brothers, but this is unlikely.
		Record of Benjamin I. Wager's first three sons (Peter, William and John, born in 1810, 1815 and 1818 respectively) in the town of Lyons, New York, is reliable information from the family Bible.
		Ezra Wager's sons David Dickerson Wager, Ezra Swayze Wager and Elias Wager appear in church records in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, listing their parents as "Ezra Wager and Mary Swesey." Elias also appears on the tax records in Brookline, Indiana, where Benjamin I. Wager's fourth son, Lewis Wager, was born.
	www.angelfire.com /music2/greggwager/wager64.html (498 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Winning the Great Wager
		If we win that wager, we win everything: a future of endless potential and a planet worth living on.
		If we win that wager, there is reason to believe that H.G. Wells was right and that "All of the past is but the beginning of a beginning, all that the human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."
		Posted by: monkeygrinder on February 25, 2005 9:19 PM I think a key part of winning the great wager is moving from the oil age (and gas and coal) to a post-carbon age which uses only clean renewable energy.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/002197.html (8432 words)

	Henry Wager Halleck Summary
		Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872) was named General-in-Chief of the United States Union forces during the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln to replace General George Brinton McClellan and was replaced, in turn, by General Ulysses S. Grant.
		In 1869, he was reassigned to command the Division of the South, and he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he died in 1872.
		Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a U.S. Army officer, scholar, and lawyer.
	www.bookrags.com /Henry_Wager_Halleck (1888 words)

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