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x Pascal's Wager Blaise Pascal argued that it is a better "bet" to believe in God than not to do so Philosophical Idea
Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should "wager" as though God exists, because so living has...
x Schrödinger's cat Philosophical Idea
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics being applied to...
x Chinese room Chinese Room Philosophical Idea
The Chinese Room argument, also referred to as The Chinese Box, comprises a thought experiment and associated arguments by John Searle (Searle 1980), who attempts to show that a symbol-processing machine like a computer can never be properly...
x Mary's room What Mary Didn't Know Philosophical Idea
Mary's room (also known as Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986). The argument it is intended to motivate...