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- Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 04:21, 3 November 2025
- Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
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- Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 04:21, 3 November 2025
- . The international unit for pressure is: one pascal = a force of one newton per square meter = ten dyn/cm² = 0.01 mbar= 0.0075 mmHg = 0.00000969 ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- figures have been fideists such as Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) and Søren ... per se—it seems excessive to call Blaise Pascal anti-rational—but evidentialism: ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- quickly became pejorative with Blaise Pascal's attack on its misuse ... and so on—all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters). ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- writer, and together with Blaise Pascal, influenced the formation ... share in collecting the materials for Pascal's Provincial Letters ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 04:35, 4 November 2025
- World, and upon arrival was bought by Michael Pascal, a captain in the Royal Navy. As the slave of a naval captain, Equiano was afforded naval training ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:04, 15 May 2026
- Pascal, Lavoisier and others used the new instrument and Torricelli ... can be seen in the writings of Blaise Pascal as well others who demanded ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- meter, and that for pressure is called a pascal (Pa). By definition, 1 Pa ... The name for the unit of pressure, the (Pascal), was added in 1971 ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 12:24, 14 April 2026
- that will ultimately produce the likes of Pascal. ALGOL goes on to become ... Niklaus Wirth begins work on Pascal. *1970 - Sometime in the early ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is featured in a number of fundamental ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- such as Pierre Charron and Blaise Pascal. == Life == Guillaume du Vair ... with that afterwards developed by Blaise Pascal, and sees in him the ancestor ...8 KB (1,204 words) - 20:07, 20 June 2024
- , 80. (The abbreviation Pa stands for the unit pascal, 1 pascal = 1 N/m2.) ==Realization of free space in outer space== Although it is only a ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- and Fifth (1941) symphonies, completed by Pascal Bentoiu.) ... (1934; unfinished, performing edition made by Pascal Bentoiu) ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 15:03, 20 May 2024
- A supercritical fluid is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its thermodynamic critical point. It has the unique ability to diffuse ...14 KB (2,010 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- existential thinkers, such as Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century ... An early forerunner of existentialism was Blaise Pascal. In 1670, ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- array of binomial coefficients known as Pascal's triangle. In 1077 Khayyám wrote Sharh ma ashkala min musadarat kitab Uqlidis (Explanations ...11 KB (1,761 words) - 18:09, 19 August 2025
- in the range of microbars, or fractions of a pascal). However, there are products that benefit from increased pressure as well. After the freeze ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 10:50, 11 April 2024
- Examples given include Plato, Lucretius, Dante, Pascal, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Proust). Foxes, on the other hand, rely on their cunning ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- [[Image:François Pascal Simon Gérard 001.jpg|thumb|left|Ossian, by [[François Gerard|François Pascal Simon Gérard]]]] ==Later works== ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 01:58, 18 December 2024
