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“The dichotomy between determinism and possibilism is unreal.” Analyse. (15 Marks)

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  • Perspectives in Human Geography

For nearly a century, geographical discourse was dominated by the acrimonious debate between Environmental Determinism (nature as the sovereign causal agent) and Possibilism (human agency as the supreme arbiter of landscape).

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  • Introduction: Deconstructing the Binary
  • 1. The Historiographical Genesis of a False Cleavage
  • 2. Analytical Arguments: Why the Dichotomy is Unreal
  • A. The Principle of Recursive Feedback (Dialectical Interaction)
  • B. Scale and Technological Relativity
  • C. The Thermodynamic Fallacy of Boundless Possibilism
  • …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion

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