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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The idea of possible worlds is most commonly attributed to Gottfried Leibniz, who spoke of possible worlds as ideas in the mind of God and (in)famously used the notion to argue that our actually created world must be "the best of all possible worlds".
		From this groundwork, the theory of possible worlds became a central part of many philosophical developments, from the 1960s onwards – including, most famously, the analysis of counterfactual conditionals in terms of "nearby possible worlds" developed by David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker.
		Possible worlds theory in literary studies uses concepts from possible-world logic and applies them to worlds that are created by fictional texts.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=possible_worlds (1273 words)

	The Best of All Possible Worlds
		That is, the reason that Aquinas, and any who claim to follow his teaching, cannot claim that this is the best of all possible worlds is grounded in the fact that any act of creation is insufficient to move the divine will with necessity.
		For the sake of argument, let us suppose that this is the best of all possible worlds, and that the evil in it is necessary; that is, the evil could not have been avoided unless God had not created at all.
		Divine freedom is such that no possible world needs to be chosen to exist, and none are so bad that they are not a participation of the divine goodness.
	www.aquinasonline.com /Topics/boapw.html (1586 words)

	Best of all possible worlds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" (French: le meilleur des mondes possibles) was coined by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Theodicy).
		If God is good and omnipotent, this world must be good, and in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds.
		Imagine that all the world is made of good and evil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds (290 words)

	Two Caricatures, II: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Leibniz maintained that the solution to the problem of evil was that this was the Best of All Possible Worlds, the almost universal reaction was that his theory combined the lack of rationality exhibited by Pascal's Wager with a repulsive failure of compassion possible only in an unfeeling Enlightenment mathematician.
		All is rosy, in the best of all possible worlds.
		World views with a sense of the seriousness of evil to humans but without Gods seem, on reflection, to be in short supply.
	web.maths.unsw.edu.au /~jim/caric2.html (4564 words)

	Barlow
		It is now possible for anybody, anywhere, to express whatever he or she thinks, and to set that thought loose in a space where it might encounter the other weird souls ready to believe it, wherever they might be.
		If it is suddenly possible to spread ideas widely without first shoving them through some centrally operated and intensely capitalized industrial engine-whether a complex of book factories or 50,000-watt transmitters---then the whole nature of what is being sold to whom and by whom should change for the better.
		As we tried to understand the world beyond our own direct experience, we were stuck with information, which bears as much resemblance to experience as beef jerky does to a living cow.
	www.acm.org /cacm/FEB97/barlow.html (3599 words)

	The Worst of All Possible Worlds?
		If this is the best of all possible worlds, then God is a sadistic pig hardly deserving of our adoration.
		According to CIA statistics (CIA World Factbook) in July 1996 the World population was 5.77 billion.
		In 1996 0.9 percent of the world population died.
	www.theology.edu /journal/volume3/worst.htm (608 words)

	Saffo: essays: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Finding (and losing) God in Disasters
		In fact, given the area's history as well as it's current unrest, it is quite likely that the long term geopolitical impact of this event may dwarf the shocking loss of life and property stemming directly from the quakes and tsunami.
		This essay considers these two possibilities and a third outcome, a wildcard scenario leading from the quake to the establishment of a new great religion.
		Indonesia is home to the world's largest population of Muslim faithful, and of course the tsunami touched the shores of Sri Lanka and India, both places with populations of myriad faithful.
	www.saffo.com /essays/bestofworlds.php (1837 words)

	Candide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sardonic in outlook, it follows the naïve protagonist Candide from his first exposure to the precept that "all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds," and on through a series of adventures that dramatically disprove that precept even as the protagonist clings to it.
		The novel satirizes naïve interpretations of the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz and is a showcase of the horrors of the 18th century world.
		Despite a series of misfortunes and misadventures, Pangloss continually asserts that "Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles" ("All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Candide (529 words)

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		The central premise is that we're all living in a world that's like a cave, and everything we think we can see and take as truth is but shadows on the wall.
		I hope we're remembered for something else." There is nothing I can say, not in the world, not in the best possible one, not in the ideal one, so I turn around and watch the television quietly until the dryer's buzzer goes off and I have to fold my sheets.
		I have this life, I think, and then I stop, because sometimes, it's easier to live in my real world than it is to think about what the best possible one would be like.
	www.geocities.com /wwwhores/thecookiejar/bestworld.txt (2311 words)

	Ekeland, Ivar; Ekeland, I.: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ekeland, Ivar; Ekeland, I.: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
		The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
		Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=IZBPT (288 words)

	Salon Books \| The best of all possible worlds
		In a world where poverty and disease are distant memories, these authors think that the only problems left will be the strange ethical quandaries of a science-fiction novel.
		Another way of putting this is to say that the authors are convinced that the financial world is about to shed it old beliefs and take on a new set of beliefs -- namely, their own.
		Over and over again, the best companies on the Internet have confounded naysayers; I, for one, would be awfully leery of the prediction advanced by Barron's that Amazon.com will fall to $10 a share or less.
	www.salon.com /tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimism/print.html (2841 words)

	Candide - A Contrast to Optimism
		Leibniz, a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire's time, developed the idea that the world they were living in at that time was "the best of all possible worlds." This systematic optimism shown by Leibniz is the philosophical system that believed everything already was for the best, no matter how terrible it seemed.
		Even though his philosophy stated that God chose "the best of all possible worlds," he also meant that God, being the perfection he is, chose the best world available to him, unfortunately it was a world containing evil.
		Voltaire uses Eldorado as an epitome of the "best of all possible worlds." It contrasts the real outside world in which war and suffering are everyday occurrences.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/literature/Novel\Candide__A_Contrast_to_Optimism-176.htm (1048 words)

	Total Eclipse » The best of all possible worlds? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is a common form of argument and phrasing in general in the field of metaphysics to speak of “possible worlds”.
		Saying that there is a possible world where Julius Caesar did not cross the Rubicon presupposes what I believe is a deeply controversial philosophical stance about identity, namely Essentialism (or Realism as opposed to Nominalism).
		Facts that just “happened” to be true in our world, but are not in some way unnecessary in other logically possible world.
	total.eclipse.co.il /?p=82 (824 words)

	Leibniz: Harmony
		Where Spinoza saw the world as a single comprehensive substance like Descartes's extended matter, then, Leibniz supposed that the world is composed of many discrete particles, each of which is simple, active, and independent of every other, like Descartes's minds or souls.
		The world in which we live, then, is but one among the infinitely many possible worlds that might have existed.
		In a more lofty tone, Leibniz declared that a benevolent god would choose to create whatever possible world contained the smallest amount of evil; hence (in a phrase that would later be mocked by Voltaire) this is "the best of all possible worlds," according to Leibniz.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/4j.htm (2112 words)

	The best of all possible worlds: the anthropic approach to cosmology asks, what makes the universe compatible with ...
		The best of all possible worlds: the anthropic approach to cosmology asks, what makes the universe compatible with intelligent life?
		The second version, called the strong anthropic principle, requires that the basic parameters describing the cosmos--the strengths of fundamental forces, for instance--cannot have random values, but instead must have values that enable life to develop at some stage in cosmic history.
		Certainly from a biological viewpoint, the fact that so many possible sites for life exist in the cosmos, and the fact that life as we know it thrives in a range of environments, suggest at most a weak connection between cosmic conditions and the evolution of life on Earth.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_6_113/ai_n6249023 (960 words)

	The Best of All Possible Worlds, or The Only Game in Town? - P.M.Lawrence
		Those workers have to take as little as possible, as there is always another unskilled worker even more desperate for that top up wage.
		Granted, we in the developed world have a technological edge of sorts, but it is not sustainable.
		(Disraeli also wrote of the possible desirability of "potato grounds", which survived into the allotment movement and was an example of just such a non-cash subsistence subsidy.) Although this only happens at the bottom, in any country it works through the local price structure to give comparably lower rates than we can offer throughout.
	www.spectacle.org /0901/lawrence.html (1548 words)

	Best of all possible worlds - Theopedia
		The best-of-all-possible worlds is the view that "God governs the course of history so that, in the long run, His glory will be more fully displayed and His people more fully satisfied than would have been the case in any other world.
		But if we look at the whole course of history, from creation to redemption to eternity and beyond, and see the entirety of God's plan, it is the best-of-all-possible plans and leads to the best-of-all-possible eternities.
		Aquinas and the Best of All Possible Worlds, by Joseph Magee
	www.theopedia.com /Best_of_all_possible_worlds (160 words)

	Currents in Electronic Literacy (Spring 1999): "Literature On-Line: The Best of All Possible Worlds?"
		While in the best of all possible worlds, good poetry will be broadcast throughout the workplace, that condition has not yet, I think, obtained.
		And many campuses are exploring the possibility of developing lease-purchase programs that would give each student a top-of-the-line PC when he or she enters the university.
		Those worlds are the industrial, the business, the commercial and professional worlds into which many our literature students will inevitably move upon graduation.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /currents/spr99/humphrey.html (2302 words)

	I want to tell you Margaret's story, Summer 2006, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Too afraid to face the possibility that Margaret could still soon die, I tried to live out a different story -- of her long struggle and eventual triumph -- as if by living out my hope I could make it true.
		For a few days I lived out a battle between two possible stories about Margaret, trying to live out the story of survival we all wanted to believe and then having to accept and live through the story of death we all had feared.
		Without some sense that the world we dreamt for Margaret was truly possible, the story of her four days is a story dominated by sickness and death that does not yield enough of the story of the daughter I longed for, and still do.
	www.nd.edu /~ndmag/su2006/thompson.html (2574 words)

	artist's statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One role of the artist is akin to that of a shaman; bringing things from other realms for the benefit of all; acting as a conduit to the unconscious world, to racial memory, to a psychic pool shared by all sentient beings.
		Artist's Statement for my 1984 "Best of All Possible Worlds" show, which is fairly pertinent to all my work:
		This is the best of all possible worlds.
	www.astro.wisc.edu /~mukluk/best-of-statement.html (227 words)

	Pangloss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pangloss is a follower of, or as many have argued, a caricature or outright satire of the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who in his Theodicy theorized that the world we live in is the best of all possible worlds.
		The term "panglossianism" describes baseless optimism of the sort exemplified by Pangloss's beliefs, which are the opposite of his fellow traveller Martin's pessimism and emphasis on free will.
		The phrase "panglossian pessimism" has been used to describe the pessimistic position that, since this is the best of all possible worlds, it is impossible for anything to get any better.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pangloss (455 words)

	: The best of all possible worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We Europeans now live in the best of all possible worlds.
		Our Supermarkets are full of good cheap food from all corners of the world.
		This is the best of all possible times.
	scotland.indymedia.org /newswire/display/2354/index.php (181 words)

	Rotational Inertia: Best of all possible worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I wish there was a path in all possible worlds where endosine developed into something big, maybe it can yet.
		I often get lost in the paths of all possible worlds, wandering, wishing, designing, hoping for a future that is more than the present.
		If each moment continues as a waterfall, decending before the next, then the true occupation of us all must be to determine the steps we should take within that fall.
	www.drummachine.com /dmmblogs/gavc/archives/000104.html (207 words)

	The Boomer Bible Forums :: View topic - The Best of All Possible Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lately I keep thinking that it ties in to ST99's interest in quantum computers -- the machines that can, in theory, calculate the best of all possible worlds (or at least the best of a rigidly defined set of possible outcomes) in the twinkling of an eye.
		A world without disease is a world where Lance Armstrong is a nobody.
		My best of all possible worlds wouldn't include the obnoxiously loud dog across the street.
	www.boomerbible.com /Forum/viewtopic.php?t=238&highlight= (306 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Books: Larry Niven,Theodore Sturgeon,Terry Carr,Robert Sheckley,Dean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He then wrote an introduction for each one of these stories, explaining, in his refreshing style, who the writer is, why he picked this particular story and how did the author reacted to his choice.
		Spider Robinson's world - past and present - is revealed throughout and we also get a glimpse into the worlds of his favorite writers as they candidly recall their reactions to their favorite stories.
		It is, in the best sense of the word, a Collection, one which touches the heart and caresses the mind.
	www.amazon.com /Best-All-Possible-Worlds/dp/0441054838 (1650 words)

	The best of all possible worlds? \| Samizdata.net
		War results in the overthrow of a mass murdering tyrant who has waged wars against three nations in the region, and the Iraqi people end up almost immeasurably better off.
		Tony Blair stands steadfast with the USA and the Anglosphere is once again shown to be the true repository of resisting tyranny across the world...
		The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/003117.html (1149 words)

	DallasNews Religion: The best of all possible worlds #1
		DallasNews Religion: The best of all possible worlds #1
		Studying current hunter-gatherer tribes, the percent of male adults who die in violence is extraordinary - from 20 to 60% of all males.
		Even during the violent 20th century, with two world wars, less than 2% of males worldwide died in warfare.
	religion.beloblog.com /archives/2007/03/the_best_of_all_possible_world.html (281 words)

	Voltaire and Kant
		Even in the beginning, all is not truly well, though Voltaire describes the castle where Candide grows up as the best of all possible castles in the best of all possible worlds.
		Now Voltaire might buy the idea that this is best of all possible worlds anyway despite all the evil--but what really shoots down the best of all possible worlds argument is that nobody is happy.
		Another reason for rejecting the "best of all possible worlds" argument is that it's so easy to imagine a world better than this one, e.g.
	www.northern.edu /marmorsa/voltnotes.htm (1163 words)

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