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Pascal's Wager - Any Way to Live a Life

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rstrats
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06-09-2014 12:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 112 by ringo
06-09-2014 11:55 AM

ringo,
re: "...a person 'convinced' against his will isn't really convinced."
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Does that mean that a woman who gets pregnant against her will isn't really pregnant?
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According to the dictionary, to be convinced is to be free of doubt and to feel certain about the truth of an issue. If a person is said to be convinced, it doesn't matter how they came to hold the conviction . Either they are convinced or they are not. In the case of the jaywill quote, the first part says that they are convinced.
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06-09-2014 1:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 114 by ringo
06-09-2014 12:48 PM

ringo,
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re: "That's why I put 'convinced' in quotes."
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Jaywill's quote didn't have quotation marks around convinced.
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