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    It is not the case that The Wager would not get off the ground if rationality requires refraining from assigning a probability to God's existence.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

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    • 1.Pascal's Wager presupposes that one should have a probability for God's existence.
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    • 2.Assigning any probability to God's existence may be inconsistent with a state of 'epistemic nullity' — a condition in which one totally lacks evidence.
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    • 3.Unlike a fair coin whose probability we know, the metaphorical 'coin' of God's existence is 'infinitely far' from us and hence apparently completely unknown.
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