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    Relativizing Pascal's Wager to Pascal's intended audience... — Carmelics
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    Relativizing Pascal's Wager to Pascal's intended audience does not dissolve the many-gods objection.

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    • 1.Pascal's peers knew of Greco-Roman paganism, Judaism, Islam, new-world paganism, and multiple brands of Protestantism.
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    • 2.Pascal's peers knew of alleged Satanism.
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    • 3.Pascal's peers knew, from acquaintance with the foregoing religions, that still other religions could readily be hypothesized.
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    In response, some authors argue that in such a competition among various possible deities for one’s belief, some are more probable than others. Although there may be ties among the expected utilities—all infinite—for believing in various ones among them, their respective probabilities can be used as tie-breakers. Schlesinger (1994, 90) offers this principle: “In cases where the mathematical expectations are infinite, the criterion for choosing the outcome to bet on is its probability”. (Note tha
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