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"ref": "1997 October 11, Rick Moen, “TAN: Mormons”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet), message-ID <61ohd0$sgr@myrddin.imat.com>",
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"ref": "2012, Paul de Man, “Mallarmé (1960)”, in Martin McQuillan, editor, The Post-Romantic Predicament, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, part II (Igitur), page 73",
"text": "Moreover, since we have now reached an extreme point in the development of consciousness, and know our own selves through and through, no 'ultimate self-doubt' remains which would allow us to ruse with death – as when, in Pascal's wager, it is the doubt about the afterlife which determines the choice.",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "Pascal's wager",
"word": "la Paskala veto"
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"word": "Pascalin vaaka"
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"sense": "Pascal's wager",
"word": "パスカルの賭け"
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"word": "파스칼의 내기"
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"word": "pascalsche Wette"
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"word": "パスカルの賭け"
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