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Re: Agel is Taking the World by Storm

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Mark Gross

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Jan 11, 2008, 1:26:56 AM1/11/08
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stake is finite. It is all divided;
where-ever the infinite is and there is not an infinity of chances of loss
against that of gain, there is no time to hesitate, you must give all. And
thus, when one is forced to play, he must renounce reason to preserve his
life, rather than risk it for infinite gain, as likely to happen as the loss
of nothingness.

For it is no use to say it is uncertain if we will gain, and it is certain
that we risk, and that the infinite distance between the certainly of what
is staked and the uncertainty of what will be gained, equals the finite good
which is certainly staked against the uncertain infinite. It is not so, as
every player stakes a certainty to gain an uncertainty, and yet he stakes a
finite certainty to gain a finite uncertainty, without transgressing against
reason. There is not an infinite distance between the certainty staked and
the uncertainty of the gain; that is untrue. In truth, there is an infinity
between the certainty of gain and the certainty of


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