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Religion - The Pragmatic Argument for Belief in God

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Wed Dec 4 11:37:51 PST 2002

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Rick Castello wrote:

#Damien Sullivan said:
#> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:01:43PM -0500, Rick Castello wrote:
#>>
#>>      I am, myself, an agnostic, but I've always found Paschal's Wager,
#>
#> Pascal's, in what I usually read.
#
#     Both spellings pop up in a great number of philosophy texts
#     I was required to read and purchase for coursework in Phil.
#     of Religion.

The man's name was Pascal, no "h". You'll see "Paschal" with an "h" as
an adjective meaning "related to Easter", from the Latin adjective, from
the Hebrew word "pesach", which means 'Passover'.

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and
   Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel