 Pascal insists that faith can nevertheless be rational in the absence of proof – i.e., that it is rational in a prudential rather than an epistemic sense. It is here that he introduces his celebrated “Wager” arguments. Pascal’s first move in the argument is a skeptical one. He argues that although God either exists or does not exist, we cannot settle the issue on the basis of reason alone. The proofs of God’s existence are not conclusive, but neither are the proofs of God’s non-existence. “Reason can determine nothing” (201).