I have come to realize there are two philosophies of bicycle mechanics: what one might term Pascalian and Cartesian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool Tools] Reference

A proto-Pascalian passage from Descartes Second Replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cartesian Assent] Reference

To consider a contrast, French thought falls under two types — the Cartesian, and the Pascalian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy, evolution, and progress] Reference

Duhem has a Pascalian view of the human mind, which means he thinks there are two major kinds of mentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Science] Reference

Rationality and Religious Theism, for instance, Joshua L. Golding adopts a broadly Pascalian strategy in defense of what he calls “religious theism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fideism] Reference

The Pascalian principle that wagering on a notional truth is as good as treating it as a certainty holds for the determination we have at Cannes to outstare a basilisk movie, or to die in the attempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Weekend fests and events.] Reference

On the one hand, the incompetence of Bazaine, Nivelle, Gamelin, Weygand; on the other, the astonishing, almost Pascalian insight and intelligence of certain rigid military figures, such as Lyautey, Galliéni, Leclerc and De Gaulle.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Army] Reference

Other accomplishments in physics included a compelling measurement of the speed of sound (showing that sound travels at the same speed, no matter the nature of its pitch), and the first satisfactory interpretation of the Pascalian barometry experiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre Gassendi] Reference

This is Duhem's Pascalianism; in the Pascalian aphorism he likes to quote, with regard to the basic principles common sense provides, "We have an impotence to prove that is invincible to any dogmatism and an idea of truth that is invincible to any skepticism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

Recent work on Pascalian wagering has a bearing on work on the nature of faith (is it voluntary or involuntary?), its value (when, if ever, is it a virtue?), and relation to evidence (insofar as faith involves belief, is it possible to have faith without evidence?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Religion] Reference

The fideist, decisionist, and absurdist traditions in Christianity seem so much more compelling to me (were I to choose): Pauline conversion; Tertullian apologetics; Pascalian wagering; Kierkegaardian fearfulness and faith-leaping; Calvinist depravity and helplessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: An Egghead's Eggnog Tidings] Reference

His other accomplishments in physics includes a study of bodies in free fall (closely modeled on Galileo's work), a mature enunciation of the principle of inertia, and an early and reasonably accurate interpretation of the Pascalian barometry experiments of the late 1640s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre Gassendi] Reference

“Moral Objections to Pascalian Wagering”, in Jordan 1994b.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal's Wager] Reference

The difference between the Kantian wager and the Pascalian is that you are "betting" on the world-view that will give you the most moral encouragement.    From Wordnik.com.  [dangerous idea] Reference

“Pascalian Wagering”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16, 437 “ 54.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal's Wager] Reference

Elsewhere, Mr. Steiner puts the matter even more explicitly: "a Pascalian wager on the transcendent is the essential foundation for the understanding of language, for the ascription of meaning to meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation] Reference

Plus, there’s some nice Pascalian reasoning here about the risk-benefit analysis: If you ‘choose’ to believe in determinism and are wrong, then you lose out on the most crucial experience of being human.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of Faith] Reference

He enumerates six such component ideas: (1) nominalism, (2) utilitari - anism, (3) positivism (antimetaphysical scientific method), (4) kantianism (emphasis on the “practical reason” of the free will), (5) voluntarism of a Schopen - hauerian sort (ontological priority of the will over science), (6) fideism or Pascalian apologetics aimed at restoring religious faiths.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRAGMATISM] Reference

“Pascalian Wagers”, Synthese 108.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal's Wager] Reference

Richard Dawkins, making yourself believe for either Pascalian or Kantian reasons is not an issue).    From Wordnik.com.  [dangerous idea] Reference

How's that Pascalian?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debating in the post-wedge world] Reference

Siris: Of Pascalian Apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Pascalian Apologetics] Reference

Of Pascalian Apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who'd've Thunk?] Reference