The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries
Dated 1 January 2008: The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries. 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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Context
A free entry can correct hagiography and can freeze the wager as a brand. Store access.
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 encyclopedia articles 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
PersonDirect 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.
- FactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 2008 · verified
Public encyclopedia articles are an education path. High confidence.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Cambridge Companion to PascalCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Blaise PascalStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
SEP’s Pascal and Pascal’s Wager articles put sourced limits on biography, probability, and the wager into a free encyclopedia.
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.
- ActorBlaise Pascal
- contributed toFactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes standing Pascal and Wager entries. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-sep-pascal-entry
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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