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Blaise Pascal's Quest for the Ineffable

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Blaise Pascal's Quest for the Ineffable - Duerlinger, James (Editor), and Ludwin, Dawn M
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The problem of the ineffable haunts Blaise Pascal. Whether in his fragmentary Pens???es , his personal correspondence, or his scientific writings on the void and geometry, the Baroque thinker gravitates to the same elusive questions: How can reason understand that which surpasses reason? How to speak of that which is beyond words? His seemingly paradoxical inquiry into God's transcendent nature - and its mathematical corollary, infinity - does not dead-end at a logical impasse. This book shows how Pascal overcomes the ...

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Blaise Pascal's Quest for the Ineffable 2001, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820452838

Hardcover