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Перевод: wager

[существительное]
пари; ставка ;
[глагол]
держать пари; биться об заклад; рисковать

Тезаурус:

1. Newman's "venture", like Pascal's wager, identified belief as a commitment undergone without the certainty of God's existence - indeed a commitment that makes sense only without that certainty.
2. Paulos is admirable on the nature of coincidence - the inevitability of improbable events - on the logic of gambling in its various forms from coin-tossing to the Stock Exchange; the Gambler's Fallacy (the belief that when a coin has landed heads several times over, there is an increased probability that tails will turn up on the next throw); Pascal's wager; Condorcet's paradox; the prisoner's dilemma.
3. Even if the chance of success in a wager is very slight, the bet should be accepted if the reward of the wager is disproportionately high in relation to the amount staked.
4. Skelton, on Major Wager, and Geoff Billington, with Rhapsody, were among 10 who finished equal third with one mistake.
5. Ehret's enthusiasm over rare blooms was such as to prompt a daily walk from Chelsea to Parsons Green to watch the progress of Magnolia grandiflora in Sir Charles Wager's garden.
6. Comments in several papers have presented this policy as akin to Pascal's wager, a kind of philosophical joke which the 17th-century philosopher Blaise Pascal used to prove the existence of God.
7. One explanation could be that the prospect of defeat now seems to him, if not inevitable, then at least sufficiently likely to be worth a contingency wager.
8. Major Wager pays off for Skelton
9. Mr Ra won his wager by building a 40-foot-high pyramid in Salt Lake City, making sacramental wine in it, and selling the stuff to religious groups - wine made in pyramids was said by the ancient Egyptians to have supernatural powers.
10. All our discussions of faith as trust, venture or wager have accepted that to subscribe to theism must represent a reasonable commitment on the part of the believer.
11. Whatever the level of probability that God exists, in Pascal's view, one should believe in God, one should wager.
12. We start with a famous passage of the French religious thinker Blaise Pascal's Thoughts , in which the seventeenth-century writer compared belief in a God to a bet or wager.
13. Consider any gift; I would wager that the gift that means most would not necessarily be the most expensive present but the one bought with sacrifice, expressing care and love.