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phenomenology  

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  • Phenomenology entered the field of geography during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when geographers began to draw from this philosophical tradition to critique spatial science. Phenomenologist geographers argued that a spatial scientific approach based on an objective epistemology failed to account for subjective human experiences of place. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Phenomenology]

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