One of the crucial assumptions Pascal makes, one that is not really defended so much as pounded out with a rhetorical hammer, is that we all must wager, and that the stakes are set ahead of time. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
I will identify just three of the crucial assumptions. (religion-online.org)
In fact, the distribution has a much fatter tail of large price fluctuations, subverting a crucial assumption that underlies much of economic theory. (newscientist.com)