POSTMODERNIST THOUGHT IN GEOGRAPHY - A REALIST VIEW

''Once upon a time a valiant fellow had the idea that men were drowned in water only because they were possessed with the idea of gravity. I f they were to knock this notion out of their heads, say by stating it to be a superstition, a religious concept, they would be sublimely pr oof against any danger from water. His whole life long he fought again st the illusion of gravity, of whose harmful results all statistic bou ght him new and manifold evidence. This valiant fellow was the type of the new revolutionary philosophers in Germany''