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 posth
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."