Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does possibilism, pushed hard enough, stop being informative?
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- "The environment offers possibilities and humans choose", what does that predict?
- If geography permits everything, why do patterns keep appearing?
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D. It becomes uninformative: it can never be wrong
Why
True and empty. If geography permits everything, the patterns we keep finding become inexplicable, so possibilism corrects determinism without replacing it.
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