Blaise Pascal: Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. His major works include Traité du vide (Treatise on the Vacuum), Pensées (Thoughts), Les Provinciales (Provincial Letters), Traité des probabilités (Treatise on Probabilities)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |