Poznávanie Geografickej Reality v Časovo-Priestorovej Kontextualite, Komplexnosti a Integrite

Cognition of the Geographical Reality in the Time-Spatial Contextuality, Complexity and Integrity

Florin Žigrai ^A*

Received: May 20, 2013 | Revised: June 27, 2013 | Accepted: September 15, 2013

^A* University of Prešov, Slovakia; external research fellow (Vienna, Austria)
florin.zigrai@a1.net (corresponding author)

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Abstract

Cognition of the geographical reality in the time-spatial contextuality, complexity, and integrity belongs to key theoretical-metascientific research fields of geography, epistemology, and meta-geography. Cognition of the geographical reality by geographers is a permanent dynamic process in time and space. Contextuality, complexity, and integrity are important internal meta-scientific characteristics and categories, which have a significant effect on the mechanisms of the emergence, development, creation, and function of cognition of geographical reality and geographical synthesis.

Key words: Cognition change, geographical reality, time-spatial contextuality, complexity, integrity

Summary

Cognition of the Geographical Reality in the Time-Spatial Contextuality, Complexity, and Integrity (Selected Theoretical-Meta-Scientific Aspects)

Cognition of the geographical reality in the time-spatial contextuality, complexity, and integrity belongs to key theoretical-metascientific research fields of geography, epistemology, and meta-geography. Cognition of the geographical reality by geographers is a permanent dynamic process in time and space. Contextuality, complexity, and integrity are important internal meta-scientific characteristics and categories, which have a significant effect on the mechanisms of the emergence, development, creation, and function of cognition of geographical reality and geographical synthesis.

The carriers of the geographical time contextuality, complexity, and integrity are the selected time periods of geographical research and development of geography as well as the size of time attributes, such as time accumulation potential, continuity, and inertia. The carriers of the geographical spatial contextuality, complexity, and integrity are the individual spatial scales and properties of geographical research on the local, regional, national, and planetary levels as well as the structure of the micro-position, macro-position, physical-geographic position, and human-geographic position.

The carriers of the geographical contextuality, complexity, and integrity are the spectrum of particular physical and human geographical disciplines on the empirical, methodological, theoretical, applied, and meta-scientific levels. Successful research of time-spatial contextuality and complexity in geography requires close collaboration, primarily among temporal, spatial, relationship, and structural sciences, as well as deep collaboration between epistemological geography and geographical epistemology.

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