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Blaise Pascal [a] (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen .
Second edition of Blaise Pascal's Pensées, 1670. The Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. [1]
Blaise Pascal is a Canadian singer-songwriter who was active in the early 2000s. [1] Although she released only one album, 2000's Hairspray , she was a Juno Award nominee for Songwriter of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2001 for her songs "Angel Baby", "10 Feet High" and "Rush".
Pascal’s conversion experience, with its distinctly Mosaic overtones, would eventually lead him to show that Christianity’s firmest foundation is the sanctity of Judaism, both past and present.
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. [1] This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God .
Deception Pass (Lushootseed: sčudᶻ; [2] Samish: Xwchsónges) [3] is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A pair of bridges known collectively as Deception Pass Bridge cross Deception
Blaise Pascal – in his description of human life as a perpetual delusion – stated that the union among men is founded upon mutual deception. [ 1 ] Mutual deceit is a situation wherein lying is both accepted and expected [ 2 ] or that the parties mutually accept the deceit in question. [ 3 ]
In the letters, Pascal's tone combines the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world. Their style meant that, quite apart from their religious influence, the Provincial Letters were popular as a literary work. Adding to that popularity was Pascal's use of humor, mockery, and satire in his arguments.