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	Pangloss at Carnegie Mellon University CMT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Pangloss team is distributed at three sites -- the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University, the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California and the Center for Machine Translation of Carnegie Mellon University.
		The current system, Pangloss Mark III, differs from all other MT systems because it employs not a single translation engine but a set of several engines (a Knowledge Based system, an Example Based system and a Lexical Transfer system) whose results are integrated for the best overall output.
		Most of the rapid-deployment MT technology was developed during the Pangloss project.
	www.lti.cs.cmu.edu /Research/Pangloss (151 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.
		Consequently, Pangloss constantly argues that "there is no effect without a cause" — in other words, everything in existence, from the human nose to natural disasters, is meant to suit a specific purpose.
		Therefore, Dr. Pangloss was called a scholar by saying that he knew all languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pangloss (459 words)

	candide
		Candide meets Pangloss who is ill with syphilis and tells Candide that Cunegonde was raped and disemboweled and she and her family are dead.
		Pangloss prevents Candide from trying to save Jacques, "by proving that the bay of Lisbon had been formed expressly for this Anabaptist to drown in." The ship sinks and Pangloss and Candide make it to shore in Lisbon in time for the earthquake.
		Pangloss tells his story of misery, yet he still thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/eng252/candidestudy.html (2568 words)

	What Pangloss Is... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pangloss is born of signed mine and body of soul.
		Pangloss is prophet of the umpth degree and when prompted or bribed will "show eir stuff".
		Pangloss has a right good chance of making a clean slate, all the while knowing that a "clean slate" is a poor substitute for vision.
	www.slack.net /~pangloss/cmp/pan.html (189 words)

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	www.pangloss-recruitment.com /services_faq.asp (501 words)

	Candide Book Notes Summary by Voltaire: Topic Tracking: Optimism
		Now that Pangloss is not around to explain away every tragedy, Candide wonders how the whole system works in light of the terrible things that happened to him.
		Pangloss doggedly asserted that the miserable world of earthquakes, wars, and autos-da-fé was the best of all possible worlds.
		Pangloss confirms the suspicion that optimism is a counter-intuitive doctrine.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/can/TOP3.htm (1266 words)

	Voltaire’s Candide
		Pangloss continues his teachings that private misfortunes make up the general good – the more misfortunes there were the more all was well.
		Pangloss assures this is for the best and the ship splits in half saving only Candide, Pangloss and the sailor who was saved by the now deceased Anabaptist.
		Pangloss, though his life was full of suffering, still defended his position that life was well.
	www.home.duq.edu /~arnett/candide.htm (3383 words)

	Summary of Candide
		The tutor Pangloss was the oracle of the house, and little Candide followed his lessons with all the candor of his age and character.
		Pangloss, "the greatest philosopher of the province and therefore of the whole world," taught Candide that he lived in "the best of all possible worlds." His theory was that "since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end."
		Pangloss and Candide were appointed accountants to the generous Anabaptist and journeyed with him toward Lisbon.
	www.awerty.com /candide.html (1533 words)

	CliffsNotes::Candide:Book Summary and Study Guide
		En route, Pangloss expounded his philosophy to his benefactor, but the latter remained unconvinced of its validity: men were not born wolves, yet they had become wolves and sought to destroy each other.
		Reproved by Pangloss, he replied that he was a sailor who four times had renounced Christianity in Japan (as required by the Japanese, who resented the presence of European traders), and who had only contempt for Pangloss and his universal reason.
		Later Pangloss and Candide were seized and imprisoned, the former guilty of having spoken, the latter of having listened—obviously capital offenses.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-50,pageNum-11.html (931 words)

	Candide
		Pangloss is an old philosopher who taught that everything was "unavoidable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds" (Online-Literature).
		Pangloss justifies this disease in saying that chocolate and cochineal would not have been discovered if Columbus had not gone to and returned from the Americas (Online-Literature).
		Pangloss states, "If there is a volcano at Lisbon [They were in Lisbon where a volcano recently erupted] it cannot be elsewhere.
	www.cis.uab.edu /kelleher/candide.html (1463 words)

	WowEssays.com - Making Fun Of Optimism, Religion And Greed
		Pangloss was not meant to be a direct attack on Leibnitz.
		In Pangloss’ world, “It is impossible for things not to be where they are, because everything is for the best.”(Voltaire 35) Pangloss believed that the earthquake was necessary in the course of nature, so there was definitely a reason why it happened.
		Candide had questioned Pangloss on a number of occasions because he felt that there must be a better place to be when there is so much evil where he was.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac2/tda244.shtml (1781 words)

	Literature.org - The Online Literature Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pangloss composed a fine memorial, by which he proved that the Baron had no right over his sister; and that she might, according to all the laws of the Empire, marry Candide with the left hand.
		Pangloss avowed that he had undergone dreadful sufferings; but having once maintained that everything went on as well as possible, he still maintained it, and at the same time believed nothing of it.
		Pangloss, Candide, and Martin, as they were returning to the little farm, met with a good-looking old man, who was taking the air at his door, under an alcove formed of the boughs of orange trees.
	www.literature.org /authors/voltaire/candide/chapter-30.html (1244 words)

	Candide
		The name Pangloss comes from the Greek words pan and glossa which Voltaire use to mean "windbag," "all tongue" or "full of hot air." The character Pangloss was modeled after numerous optimistic thinkers like Gottfried William von Leibniz and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
		He used Pangloss to tell people that optimists, like Leibniz, and their theories are ridiculous and should not be taken seriously.
		Pangloss had lost everything in his name, did not live in a comfortable castle as he once had, and he was tortured in many horrible ways.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Museum/5999/candide.html (1738 words)

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		The optimistic eternal Pangloss, having learned that the third millenium had arrived, proposed to Candide to give up their garden for a few times, for new tribulations.
		Pangloss: " That made already 2 centuries 1/2 that we do it.
		The philosopher Martin, satirist, observed: " In 2 centuries 1/2, the earth did not cease turning nor the man to worry or to be bored ".
	membres.lycos.fr /sborens (186 words)

	Candide by Voltaire
		Pangloss - He was Candide’s philosophical tutor who helped Candide after he was kicked out of the palace, but he was hanged and assumed dead, only to be found nearly dead later in the book.
		His dialogue are representative of his characters as is seen by the long winded arguments of Pangloss and the descriptively exaggerated stories of the old woman.
		“Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said everything in the world is for the best.” Candide says this of his new distrust of Pangloss’ teachings.
	summarycentral.tripod.com /candide.htm (869 words)

	SparkNotes: Candide: Chapters 27–30
		Pangloss picked it up and returned it to her bosom “with the most respectful attentions.” Her male companion thought he was taking too long with it, so he had Pangloss arrested.
		Pangloss represents human folly and the baron represents human arrogance, and Voltaire seems to be saying that neither ever really dies.
		Pangloss no longer even really believes his own words, but he refuses to incorporate his new knowledge into his philosophy.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/candide/section8.rhtml (1244 words)

	Show Plot: Candide (1999): Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for Licensing
		Pangloss tells Candide that the castle of Thunder-den-Tronck was completely destroyed in the war, the Baron and his family wiped out and Cunegonde repeatedly raped and then killed by Bavarian soldiers.
		Pangloss recovers from the pox with the loss of only one ear and one eye.
		Surviving the wreck, Pangloss and Candide and Pangloss have no sooner arrived in Lisbon than the city is struck by a devastating earthquake which kills thirty thousand of its citizens.
	www.mtishows.com /show_plot.asp?ID=000256 (2731 words)

	Pangloss is a suite of products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pangloss is a suite of products that facilitates the development of metadata for the Semantic Web.
		Pangloss MetaExtender facilitates the selection of core elements of a metadata specification expressed as an ontology in OWL.
		Pangloss MetaMapper facilitates the explicit creation of a mapping among 2 metadata specifications, both of them expressed as an ontology in OWL.
	loki.cae.drexel.edu /~how/pangloss (286 words)

	Voltaire's 'Candide'; chapter 5 'Tempest, shipwreck, earthquake'
		ONE half of the passengers being weakened, and ready to breathe their last, with the inconceivable anguish which the rolling of the ship conveyed through the nerves and all the humors of the body, which were quite disordered, were not capable of being alarmed at the danger they were in.
		The whirling flames and ashes covered the streets and public places, the houses tottered, and their roofs fell to the foundations, and the foundations were scattered; thirty thousand inhabitants of all ages and sexes were crushed to death in the ruins.
		Pangloss was in the middle of his proposition; when the inquisitor made a signal with his head to the tall armed footman in a cloak, who waited upon him, to bring him a glass of port wine.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/voltaire/candide/chap5.htm (809 words)

	FREE MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-Candide by Voltaire-CHAPTERS 5-6 NOTES-Free Book Notes Chapter Summary Study Guide ...
		Pangloss argues that the particular part of the sea is meant for Jacques to drown in.
		Pangloss tries to rationalize about the happening while Candide thinks that it is the end of the world.
		Pangloss continues to argue in favor of his theory instead of making an attempt to reduce the effect of the catastrophe.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCandide13.asp (706 words)

	Voltaire - Candide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His mentor, Pangloss, is the greatest philosopher in the world, whilst his master's daughter, Cunegonde, is the loveliest woman in the world.
		Pangloss will hear no denial of the 'rightness' of everything but Candide's optimism takes a battering when he is thrown out of his home, and embarks on an adventure in which he will narrowly escape death numerous times.
		This wonderfully clever and witty work was written in 1758, at a time when the prevailing philosophy was a distorted reflection of the doctrine of Leibniz, taken to an extreme where even the direst evil was seen as a necessary, and therefore good, part of our existence.
	www.minstrel.org.uk /papers/book-reviews/VCandide.htm (272 words)

	A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell Dr. Pangloss, Candide, and James, the Anabaptist
		One half of the passengers, weakened and half-dead with the inconceivable anxiety and sickness which the rolling of a vessel at sea occasions through the whole human frame, were lost to all sense of the danger that surrounded them.
		The repast, indeed, was mournful, and the company moistened their bread with their tears; but Pangloss endeavored to comfort them under this affliction by affirming that things could not be otherwise that they were.
		Pangloss was in the midst of his proposition, when the familiar beckoned to his attendant to help him to a glass of port wine.
	www.infoplease.com /t/lit/candide/chapter5.html (860 words)

	Daily Howler: Why was Clinton hated so much? Blogger Pangloss knows the drill
		In recent days, Pangloss has been gazing on the works of the mainstream press corps, and everywhere the Blogger has looked, he has seen what he so often sees in that garden: “The current state of the art in human perfectibility,” his description of the great New York Times.
		According to Pangloss, pseudo-con crackpots have always been with us, but by the time Clinton arrived on the scene, they finally had potent mouthpieces in talk radio and on the Net.
		Unlike our own Blogger Pangloss, she couldn’t see that this brilliant group is “the current state of the art in human perfectibility.” In fact, at a Monday evening fund-raiser, she stupidly said something different.
	www.dailyhowler.com /dh061405.shtml (3515 words)

	Voltaire's 'Candide'; chapter 4 'Dr. Pangloss Again'
		They knocked my Lord the Baron on the head for attempting to protect her; my Lady the Baroness was cut in pieces; my poor pupil was treated like his sister; and as for the castle, there is not one stone left upon another, nor a barn, nor a sheep, nor a duck, nor a tree.
		Pangloss made answer as follows: "Oh my dear Candide, you knew Paquetta, the pretty attendant on our noble Baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of Paradise, which produced those torments of hell with which you see me devoured.
		Pangloss explained to him how every thing was such as it could not be better; but James was not of this opinion.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/voltaire/candide/chap4.htm (802 words)

	Pangloss is a suite of products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The following tools are available: Pangloss MetaInstance to edit metadata instances based on Metadata Schemas expressed in Web Ontology Language (OWL), Pangloss MetaExtender to create a core metadata set of an existing Metadata Specification and Pangloss MetaMapper to create crosswalks of Metadata specifications.
		Pangloss MetaExtender facilitates the selection of core elements of a metadata specification expressed as an ontology in OWL.
		Pangloss MetaMapper facilitates the explicit creation of a mapping among 2 metadata specifications, both of them expressed as an ontology in OWL.
	loki.cae.drexel.edu:8080 /~how/pangloss (286 words)

	CliffsNotes::Candide:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Pangloss recounts his recent experiences, including the death of the baron and his family at the hands of soldiers.
		They soon meet Pangloss and the baron’s son, both of whom were presumed dead, and discover that, back in Lisbon, the noose on Pangloss’s neck slipped, while the baron’s son recovered from Candide’s stab wound.
		The entire party—Candide, Cunégonde, Cacambo, Martin, Pangloss, and the old woman—live there together, and are soon joined by Paquette and her companion, Friar Giroflée.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-50,pageNum-5.html (1217 words)

	NovelGuide: Candide: Character Profiles
		Though throughout the novel Candide tries valiantly to hold onto the teaching of his tutor, Pangloss, who subscribes to the philosophy that maintains that all things are for the best, his experience continues to show him otherwise.
		Pangloss- Pangloss is Candide’s tutor and propagandist of optimism who appears and reappears throughout the story.
		She, like Candide and Pangloss, is also inclined to believe in optimism, though her personal belief in the philosophy is not stressed.
	www.novelguide.com /candide/characterprofiles.html (535 words)

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