I address a puzzle in Pascal's Pensées. While Pascal emphasized that God is hidden, he also seemed to think that signs of God are everywhere in nature. How does he reconcile these two claims? I offer a novel solution which emphasizes the role of love and what I call “second-personal” significance, and which results in a distinctively Pascalian account of religious experience of nature. By distinguishing implication from various senses of ‘proof’, I explain why, though deeply significant, such experiences cannot play the role of proving God's existence, and how they are compatible with God's hiddenness. Neither theism nor atheism is assumed by this account.

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帕斯卡的鸟：自然界中的标志和意义*

我解决了帕斯卡的《思想录》中的一个难题。虽然帕斯卡强调上帝是隐藏的，但他似乎也认为上帝的迹象在自然界中无处不在。他如何调和这两种说法？我提出了一种新颖的解决方案，它强调爱的作用和我所说的“第二人称”意义，从而产生了一种独特的帕斯卡式的对自然宗教体验的描述。通过区分蕴含与各种意义上的“证明”，我解释了为什么这样的经历虽然意义深远，但却不能起到证明上帝存在的作用，以及它们如何与上帝的隐藏相兼容。这种说法既不假定有神论，也不假定无神论。