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LETTING THE DATA SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES∗

Annals of the Association of American GeographersPublished 1 June 1981
Peter Gould
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Abstract

ABSTRACT In Science, great difficulty is sometimes experienced in giving up hypothesized structures. The inadequacies of Freudian hypotheses are highlighted, and attention is directed to Dasein-analysis, which stays close to the data. This perspective focuses attention upon the phenomenological tradition, and suggests that certain mathematical frameworks in human geography are inappropriate. The adequacy of a priori models is also questioned from a Heideggerian perspective, and more general qualitative algebras are suggested to replace the distorted functional thinking inherited from the physical sciences.

Keywords

Decision Sciences