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Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. [1][2] In cultural ecology, Marshall Sahlins used this concept in order to develop alternative approaches to the environmental determinism dominant at that time in ecological ...
Actualism. In analytic philosophy, actualism is the view that everything there is (i.e., everything that has being, in the broadest sense) is actual. [1][2] Another phrasing of the thesis is that the domain of unrestricted quantification ranges over all and only actual existents. [3]
The concept of possibilism has been used by historians to evoke the epistemological fuzziness that, according to them, characterized the approach of Vidal's school. Described as " idiographic ", this approach was seen as blocking the evolution of the discipline in a " nomothetic " direction that would be the result of experimentation, making it ...
Carl O. Sauer. Appearance. Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the dean of American historical geography " [ 1 ] and he was instrumental in the ...
Possibilianism. Possibilianism is a philosophy that rejects both the diverse claims of traditional theism and the positions of certainty in strong atheism in favor of a middle, exploratory ground. [1][2][3][4][5] The term was invented by Robbie Parrish, [6] a friend of neuroscientist David Eagleman who defined the term in relation to his 2009 ...
Possibilism (philosophy), the metaphysical belief that possible things exist (e.g. modal realism). Possibility theory, a framework for reasoning with uncertainty in artificial intelligence. Possibilism and Possibilists, a somewhat derogatory term for Reformist Socialism and Social democracy. Libertarian possibilism, an anarchist current that ...
Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. [1][2] It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then green parties have developed and established ...