Cet extrait sattache donc a evoquer l infiniment grand. The family had always been devout, and the younger pascal, though absorbed in his scientific work, never seems to have been. Pour decrire l infiniment petit oppose a l infiniment grand, blaise pascal utilise l homme comme echelle. If the christian god does not exist, the agnostic loses little by believing in him and gains. Blaise pascal lived in 17thcentury france and made several contributions to the fields of mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Pascals wager, practical argument for belief in god formulated by blaise pascal. Blaise pascal, a 17th century philosopher, felt this modern malaise of being a stranger in the universe in an extremely prescient manner. His theory of conic sections and probability theory are well known. The word conversion, however, is too forcible to be applied at this point to blaise pascal himself. The wager by blaise pascal blaise pascal, thoemmes about the author early in life blaise pascal 16231662 pursued interests in physics and mathematics. Courrier du centre international blaise pascal, n 14, 1992, p. Memes mots pour evoquer linfiniment petit et linfiniment grand immensite, univers, terre. Dissertations gratuites sur infiniment petit blaise pascal.
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