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Religion - The Pragmatic Argument for Belief in God

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Mon Dec 2 18:58:01 PST 2002

Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> writes on 2 December 2002 at 21:41:26 -0500
 > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:01, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Which brings me to a variant of that argument, called Sipfle's Wager
 > > (after prof. David Sipfle of Carleton).  It's the same basic argument,
 > > applied to free will.
 > > 
 > > Breaks down to three cases:
 >                  ^^^^^
 > 
 > > 
 > > 1.  Free will exists, and you choose to believe otherwise.
 > > 
 > > 2.  Free will does not exist, and you're predestined to believe in
 > >     free will. 
 > > 
 > > 3.  Free will exists, and you choose to believe in free will.
 > > 
 > > 4.  Free will does not exist, and you predestined to not believe in
 > >     free will.
 > 
 > Oh.. looky, we get a fourth case for free! :)

2 and 4 I originally listed combined, and didn't get back to clean up
the number.  
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