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Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation: [pɔl vidal də la blaʃ], Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics.
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 early development of 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 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 studies.
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]
Hans Rosling (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɑːns ˈrûːslɪŋ]; 27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute [4] and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are best viewed in ...
The best world is the one with the greatest "degree of reality", the greatest "quantity of essence", the greatest "perfection" and "intelligibility". [2] According to this tradition, "evil, though real, is not a 'thing', but rather a direction away from the goodness of the One"; [ 11 ] evil is the absence of good , and accordingly, it is ...