Calculus

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Jul 3 16:01:43 EDT 2001


[Tim Daneliuk]

> I thought it was Voltaire who said we live in the best of all possible
> world (in 'Candide')...

Panglos, Candide's teacher and philosopher, was repeating that sentence
at every turn of the page, indeed.  But Voltaire's intent was laughing at
Leibnitz philosophy, making it look ridiculous.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard




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