Pangloss

Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best.

The term Panglossian originates from Voltaire’s satire Candide, in which the character, Pangloss, is always overly optimistic.

As a result, the PANGLOSS MT system was able to make use of this knowledge base, mainly in its generation element.

Bottiglia (1951), p. 720 Fundamental to Voltaire's attack is Candide's tutor Pangloss, a self-proclaimed follower of Leibniz and a teacher of his doctrine.

Candide ignores Pangloss's insistence that all turned out for the best by necessity, instead telling him "we must cultivate our garden".

Candide is surprised: Pangloss had told him that Cunégonde had been raped and disemboweled.

Candide, the impressionable and incompetent student of Pangloss, often tries to justify evil, fails, invokes his mentor and eventually despairs.

Critical Survey of Short Fiction (2001) It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.

On the way to rescue her, Candide finds Pangloss and Cunégonde's brother rowing in the galley.

Pangloss reveals he was infected with this disease by Paquette and shocks Candide by relating how Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckh was destroyed by Bulgars, and that Cunégonde and her whole family were killed.

Returning to their farm, Candide, Pangloss, and Martin meet a Turk whose philosophy is to devote his life only to simple work and not concern himself with external affairs.

The dervish responds by asking rhetorically why Pangloss is concerned about the existence of evil and good.

The sailor leaves in order to loot the rubble while Candide, injured and begging for help, is lectured on the optimistic view of the situation by Pangloss.

Whatever their horrendous fortune, Pangloss reiterates "all is for the best" (Fr.