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    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

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    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    I can understand your critique, but I would change my position in response to this. These facets of utility I will call ontologically measured, but they may be difficult to measure epistemically or quantify to us. Utility may or may not be epistemically measurable, but that does not get rid of...
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    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    I denounce the view that utility is quantifiable. You may wish to quantify it, but I see no reason to. In abductive arguments or criteria, it only needs to be recognized what option fills the criteria better than other options, which does not need to be quantified, mathematically expressed, or...
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    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    I try to approach Pascal's Wager differently. I start with the question, what is the maximal good action or course of action we can take? When we go down that route, it seems that a maximally good action that could be performed by a human being has 5 separate properties: (1) maximal length of...
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