Maybe. But, call me a Panglossian optimist, I don't think so.
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Its author, a computer scientist and chess expert named David Levy, takes the most panglossian view.
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Long before he met Trump, Burnett had developed a Panglossian confidence in the power of branding.
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Its culture melds a ruthless pursuit of profit with a Panglossian and narcissistic belief in its own virtue.
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" However, Giles Keating, senior advisor at Torchwood Capital, disagreed, describing Della Vigna's outlook as "a great Panglossian view.
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Even fans may find these serendipitous tales — comforting, touching and often funny though they are — just a little Panglossian.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Life-affirming: a descriptor redolent of Panglossian naiveté that I'd ordinarily avoid at all costs.
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She also knocked out words such as Panglossian, Baedeker and sarsaparilla, spelling her way past the other 52 children at the competition.
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" What finally shattered such Panglossian notions was the demagogue on the campaign trail last year who ranted, credibly to many, about "American carnage.
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The CPEC taboo undermines the Panglossian argument that, now a civilian government is at last aligned with the armed forces in Pakistan, much can be accomplished.
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The role of calming natural leader is not one that has come easily as he struggles to find the balance between public reassurance and Panglossian dismissiveness.
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In the gloom of the Great Depression — the unemployment rate was 25 percent as Roosevelt took office — the 32nd president was reassuring but far from Panglossian.
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Allen Lane; £2117.99 His critics regard him as Panglossian, and suspect he cherry-picks statistics, but the author's case for global optimism is entertaining and well-argued.
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" Williams argues for something "between the poles of tribal identitarianism and Panglossian utopianism," explaining: "People will always look different from each other in ways we can't control.
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So in dismissing all that, was Birx making a policy determination to assume that the model's most Panglossian all-is-well prediction will turn out to be correct?
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"I've thought for quite a long time that the happy clappy Panglossian Republican politics that we had over the last few decades was deeply out of touch," he said.
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So there is a Panglossian end in sight: Trump's norm-busting ways drag the Republican Party down electorally and end with him defeated in 2020 by a reenergized Democratic coalition.
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Judging by its latest Panglossian assessment of the global economy, it would seem that the World Bank will once again be flat-footed by the next major global economic downturn.
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That can amount to a Panglossian belief that the current policy is best, whereas the current policy may actually be a wobbly structure held together by overconfidence, historical accident and the power of precedent.
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They make cheery, ludicrously Panglossian pitches: Give us $87.5 million for a new soccer stadium, and it will be the defining accomplishment of our generation, as well as something that will heal Charlotte's racial divisions.
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Last month, Bezos unveiled plans for a Moon lander built by his company Blue Origin before outlining a Panglossian vision of space colonization, with a trillion souls living in space in huge, forest-filled rotating colonies.
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There's no doubt that many of Biden's allies desperately want to see his Panglossian vision come about, but Kerry is armed with the not-so-secret knowledge of the trap his Senate colleague is stumbling toward.
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In Pérez's two spells as president — from 2000 to 2006 and from 703 onward — he has transformed his club into a sort of sporting Disneyland, a Panglossian paradise where everything is for the best, an endless victory parade.
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" Jeansonne takes a Panglossian view of Hoover's early tribulations, but a better assessment of his scarred soul was made by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore: "If you put a rose in Hoover's hand, it would wilt.
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"Whether that equity reaction is Panglossian complacency or a sign of wonderful underlying fundamentals remains open to question," ING wrote, adding that "even Category 1.43 storms can now be added to the list of things that 'Don't Really Matter'".
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"Whether that equity reaction is Panglossian complacency or a sign of wonderful underlying fundamentals remains open to question," ING wrote in a morning note, adding that "even Category 5 storms can now be added to the list of things that 'Don't Really Matter'".
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Elected officials of both bodies will pay lip service to the idea of working together, and some of the more Panglossian pundits will express the hope that even this divided Congress will produce a deal on infrastructure spending or prescription drug prices.
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My family's multigenerational transformation from what is called "black" toward what is assumed to be "white" has led me to yearn for ways of seeing and relating to one another that operate somewhere between the poles of tribal identitarianism and Panglossian utopianism.
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Serious economic analysis has never supported the Panglossian view of trade as win-win for everyone that is popular in elite circles: growing trade can indeed hurt many people, and for the past few decades globalization has probably been, on net, a depressing force for the majority of U.S. workers.
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Yeah, right, that kind of thing, and so it was ... At the time it was definitely pushing back about that idea that this is all for the good, you know, and this is sort of the Panglossian idea of ... Yeah, and I think what was forgotten more than anything else was business models.
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Eventually, you hit a critical mass of media executives who pick up Rich Guy On a Plane Magazine while heading home from Aspen and read about how their competitors are investing heavily in video because of Mark Zuckerberg's Panglossian promises of profitability who think, well, if BuzzFeed or Vice or HuffPost is doing that, we need to be as well.
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There's no reason to assume that the right leader, the Nixon or Reagan to Trump's Wallace or Goldwater, couldn't pull of something similar after four or eight years of Hillary – especially since, as Dougherty writes, the Trump revolt has finally exposed the G.O.P.'s core problem, the disconnect between its elite financial wing and its actual voting base, in ways that no Panglossian, RNC-autopsy, "all is well if we just pass immigration reform" analysis can now deny.
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13): 182, 184–186. and “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm” (1979). for background see Gould's "The Pattern of Life's History" in John Brockman The Third Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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41 Objection: Evolutionary biology can be fallacious when it proceeds by breaking an organism into adaptive traits and proposing an adaptive story for each trait considered separately."The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A Critique of the adaptionist programme." Proceedings Royal Society London. 305:581-598, 1979.
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Adaptationism is sometimes characterized by critics as an unsubstantiated assumption that all or most traits are optimal adaptations. Structuralist critics (most notably Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould in their "spandrel" paperStephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin. "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme" Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 205 (1979) pp.
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An ornamented bridge spandrel. Steven J. Gould and Richard Lewontin argued that the triangular area is a byproduct of the adaptation of structures around it. In 1979, influenced by Seilacher among others, the paleontologist Stephen J. Gould and the population geneticist Richard Lewontin wrote what Wagner called "the most influential structuralist manifesto", "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm". They pointed out that biological features (like architectural spandrels) did not necessarily have adaptation as their direct cause.
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An example of a problem which causes difficulty and debate is the St. Petersburg paradox. This is a lottery which is constructed so that the expected value is infinite but unlikely so that most people will not pay a large fee to play. Gerd Gigerenzer explained that, in this case, mathematicians refined their formulae to model this pragmatic behaviour. Keith Stanovich characterizes this as a Panglossian position in the debate—that humans are fundamentally rational and any variance between the normative position and empirical outcomes may be explained by such adjustments.
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The Post-American World, at 292 pages long, was described as "a book-length essay" and a "thin book that reads like one long, thoughtful essay". Written with an optimistic tone, it features little new research or reporting, but rather contains insights and identification of trends. The reviewer for The Wall Street Journal described the tone as "infectious (though not naive) sunniness...but without Panglossian simplicity". The American Spectator reviewer noted that the prose had a journalistic style while the reviewer for The Guardian noticed the writing sometimes displayed "news magazine mannerisms".
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33 Maurice Leloir's poster for the première of Chérubin at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1905 Eric Salzman reviewed the album in Stereo Review in February 1993. "What a cast!", he wrote, equally delighted by Frederica von Stade's Chérubin, Dawn Upshaw as "the faithful Nina", June Anderson as "the sexy dancer" and Samuel Ramey as "the Panglossian philosophy prof". He was just as enthusiastic about the chorus of the Bavarian State Opera, the Munich Radio Orchestra and Pinchas Steinberg's "elegant and inspired" conducting, but he used most of his article to praise the opera itself.
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The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 205. pp. 581-598. The initial definition of the BAH, as published in 1994 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Leroi et al., is that > “acclimation to a particular environment gives an organism a performance > advantage in that environment over another organism that has not had the > opportunity to acclimate to that particular environment.” This definition was further reworked in an article in American Zoologist 1999 by Raymond B. Huey, David Berrigan, George W. Gilchrist, and Jon C. Herron.
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Stross describes humanity's situation at the start of Accelerando as dire: > In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, > horrible things are happening. Most of humanity is wiped out, then > arbitrarily resurrected in mutilated form by the Vile Offspring. Capitalism > eats everything then the logic of competition pushes it so far that merely > human entities can no longer compete; we're a fat, slow-moving, tasty > resource – like the dodo. Our narrative perspective, Aineko, is not a > talking cat: it's a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has > worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think > they're dealing with a furry toy.
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"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", is a paper by evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, originally published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 1979. The paper criticizes the adaptationist school of thought that was prevalent in evolutionary biology at the time using two metaphors: that of the spandrels in St Mark's Basilica, a cathedral in Venice, Italy, and that of the fictional character "Pangloss" in Voltaire's novella Candide. The paper was the first to use the architectural term "spandrel" in a biological context.
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In 1975, when E. O. Wilson's book Sociobiology proposed evolutionary explanations for human social behaviors, biologists including Lewontin, his Harvard colleague Stephen Jay Gould, and Ruth Hubbard responded negatively.Elizabeth Allen et al., 1975, "Against 'Sociobiology'", The New York Review of Books, November 13, 1975 Lewontin and Gould introduced the term spandrel to evolutionary biology, inspired by the architectural term "spandrel", in an influential 1979 paper, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme." "Spandrels" were described as features of an organism that exist as a necessary consequence of other (perhaps adaptive) features, but do not directly improve fitness (and thus are not necessarily adaptive).
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One of the most well-known and widely cited papers in biology is "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". It is based on an analogy between the beautifully decorated spandrels spaced around the domes in the basilica, which sit on four arches (technically, the structures are pendentives rather than spandrels), and various biological traits and features. The authors, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, argue that the spandrels are the inevitable spaces that exist when a dome is placed above arches rather than design elements and that many biological traits are similarly the side effects of functional traits rather than adaptive traits in themselves.
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Some think incorrectly that this idea was mocked by Voltaire in his satirical novel Candide as baseless optimism of the sort exemplified by the beliefs of one of its characters Dr. Pangloss, which are the opposite of his fellow traveller Martin's pessimism and emphasis on free will. The optimistic position is also called Panglossianism and became an adjective for excessive, even stupendous, optimism. 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. Conversely, philosophical pessimism might be associated with an optimistic long-term view because it implies that no change for the worse is possible.
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Nonetheless, the statement that "we live in the best of all possible worlds" drew scorn, most notably from Voltaire, who lampooned it in his comic novella Candide by having the character Dr. Pangloss (a parody of Leibniz and Maupertuis) repeat it like a mantra. From this, the adjective "Panglossian" describes a person who believes that the world about us is the best possible one. While Leibniz does state this universe is the best possible version of itself, the standard for goodness does not seem clear to many of his critics. To Leibniz, the best universe means a world that is “the simplest in hypotheses and the richest in phenomena”, in addition to the “happiness of minds” being God's main goal.
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A sign in Suita city, Osaka prefecture, Japan, warns 'Beware of Perverts'. With the sexual revolution of the later twentieth century, much that Freud had argued for became part of a new wide-ranging liberal consensus. At times this might lead to a kind of Panglossian world view where every fetishist has his "fetishera ... for every man who is hung up on shoes, there is a woman ready to cater for and groove with him, and for every man who gets his thrills from hair, there is a woman who gets hers from having her locks raped. Havelock Ellis has many cases of this meeting of the minds: the man who yearns to get pressed on by high heels sooner or later meets the woman who has daydreamed all her life of heel-pressing".
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Reviewing Fixed Hearts, AllMusic's Jack Rabid wrote that the album had the "brightly ringing, polished/unthreatening, anodyne" 1960s pop vibe of a "groovy guitar pop party" where "nice guys finish first and get the girl in the finale." The review cited Skaught's "easy sincerity and the group's harmonic gifts," embracing a "Panglossian panoply of this period from when they were pups, cutting in country-pop, folk, and—heck yeah—a horns-laden opener with bits of Memphis soul." A review in The Aquarian Weekly cited the "general giddiness of the album," moving from a "nostalgic and swinging vibe" through songs with a "country-pop sound" and "pulsing drums," to the "peaceful" final tracks. In 2013, the group released We Need the Rain, which was named one of the "Top 20 Releases of 2013" by Goldmine.
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In addition to pin-up art, he also illustrated for paperbacks (Pocket Books), served as a traditional portraitist, painting such subjects as General George S. Patton Jr., and drew numerous movie posters including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Alfred E. Neuman on Mad #30 In 1956 Mingo answered a New York Times ad for an illustrator ("National magazine wants portrait artist for special project"), and was selected by Mad publisher William M. Gaines and editor Al Feldstein to create a warmer, more polished version of a public domain character the magazine had been using. Previously, the magazine had printed a rougher image and redrawings of the character, which were randomly dubbed "Melvin F. Coznowski" or "Mel Haney" in addition to "Alfred E. Neuman." The Panglossian simpleton had appeared in many guises and variations since the 19th century, including in dental advertisements that assured the public of minimal tooth-pulling pain.
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