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This philosopher proposed that we should view God's existence much like we would view a wager.

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Blaise Pascal

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Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument presented by the seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist and theologian Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). It posits that human beings wager with their lives that God either exists or does not.

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The philosopher you are referring to is Blaise Pascal. He proposed that we should view God's existence much like we would view a wager. Pascal thought that evidence cannot settle the question of whether God exists, so he proposes that you should bet, or wager, on God because of what’s at stake: you have lots to gain and not much to lose.

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