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Project Gutenberg hosts public-domain English Pensées

Public-domain fragments are an education path. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Pascal did not encode the file.

Context

Digital access spreads both the wager and the anti-Jesuit notes.

Blaise Pascal is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Public-domain fragments are an education path. High confidence.

High confidence.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Blaise Pascal

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.12 · verified

    Mathematician, Jansenist controversialist, and inventor as documented. Printers, Port-Royal, and later metrologists reuse the name.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Pascal, Pensées — Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Library of CongressLibrary of Congress · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Project Gutenberg’s public Pensées made the fragments downloadable without a rare Port-Royal quarto.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorBlaise Pascal
  2. contributed toFactProject Gutenberg hosts public-domain English Pensées
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Project Gutenberg hosts public-domain English Pensées. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-gutenberg-pensees

https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-gutenberg-pensees

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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