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Question
Evaluate the dualisms that exist in Geography.
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Solution
The three dualism in geography which started wide-ranging debates in the discipline of geography are:
- Whether geography as a discipline should be a law making/ the orising (nomothetic) or descriptive (idiographic).
- Whether the approach of the study should be regional or systematic?
- Whether geographical phenomena can be interpreted theoretically or through a historic-institutional approach?
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