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The wager builds on the theme of other Pensées where Pascal systematically dismantles the notion that we can trust purely in reason.
However, he does not consider reason to be useless or irrelevant.
On the contrary, in note 273, he says, " If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element.
If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.
" So, while Pascal is not precluding the use of reason, much of his notes are geared toward attacking absolute certainty, attempting to convince the reader of what he sees as the true range and limits of reason.
As such, his work is often cited as one of the first works on Existentialism for thoughts like the following:
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