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Pangloss
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Pangloss [ˈpænglɒs]
n
a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
Panglossian  adj
[after Dr Pangloss, a character in Voltaire's Candide (1759)]
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Noun1.Pangloss - an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire
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Whether his particular target happened to be manipulative advertising, planned obsolescence (a phrase he did not invent, but certainly popularised), the myth of a classless America, or governmental threats to privacy, he did commendable work in puncturing his countrymen's bent towards Panglossianism.
THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture by Stove, R.J. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
The achievements of genetics suffered a similar fate, becoming known largely through the snide inverted Panglossianism of "selfish gene" explanations of sociobiology.
Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend by Franklin, James / New Criterion
 
 
 
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