What Philosophical Implication Did Many of Pascal's Contemporaries and Immediate

question 19

Multiple Choice

What philosophical implication did many of Pascal's contemporaries and immediate followers draw from his creation of the Pascaline?

• A) It challenged Descartes's assertion that only humans had the capacity for rational calculation.
• B) It challenged Locke's theories about the association of ideas.
• C) It undercut Hobbes's argument that human reasoning was a form of mathematical calculation.
• D) It caused Leibniz to be troubled by the thought of a machine that could calculate numbers better than a human being.

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