text: This man harshly attacked the doctrine of "probabilism" in the first of a set of eighteen writings forwhich he used the pseudonym Louis de Montalte.
full_question: This man harshly attacked the doctrine of "probabilism" in the first of a set of eighteen writings forwhich he used the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. This man sewed a page of writing into his coat toremember his "night of fire," a transformative mystical experience. This man jumped into the formularycontroversy by defending Antoine Arnauld and the Port Royal abbey, whose religious views were underthreat. He argued in posthumously-published writings that the prospect of eternal (*) damnation is so badthat it's safer to receive the sacraments even if one is skeptical. For 10 points, name this author of the pro-JansensistProvincial Letters, a French philosopher and mathematician whose Pensees (pahn-SAYz) include a namesaketheological "wager."
first_sentence: This man harshly attacked the doctrine of "probabilism" in the first of a set of eighteen writings forwhich he used the pseudonym Louis de Montalte.
raw_answer: Blaise Pascal