

Academic skeptics accept probabilism, while do not. This view was held by the of the (see and ). Philosophy In, probabilism referred to the doctrine which gives assistance in ordinary matters to one who is skeptical in respect of the possibility of real knowledge: it supposes that though knowledge is impossible, a man may rely on strong beliefs in practical affairs.ADVERTISEMENTS: The first approach adopted by the geographers to generalize the patterns of human occupations of the earth surface was deterministic. ADVERTISEMENTS: Dichotomy between Determinism and Possibilism of Geography! In the history of geographical concepts, there have been various approaches and schools of thought of study man-nature interaction.
