Geog111, Thinking about thinking

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• Were going to use several exercises to think
  about how we know the world with its many
  meanings.
• Connect the 9 dots with four continuous straight
  lines. What are the spatial units?
• The answer is on the web.

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A hunter tracks a bear. She follows the bear 1 km
south, 1km east, and 1 km north. She discovers
that she has returned to her starting position.
Hint what color is the bear?
Commonly drawn
white bear (polar bear) at the North Pole
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What do you see? Be very systematic. List
everything you see you dont know what evidence
is important yet!
Muslims are praying in New York City facing in
the most direct direction towards Mecca.
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dialectics of ideas dialectics of space
yin-yang symbol White and black spaces appear
within their respective spaces in empirically
impossible ways!
donut Donuts are defined by the absence of dough
in their very centers.
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Magic or science?White light becomes the colors
of the rainbow!
Both, depending on your knowledge and believes.
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• Are the islands connected to each other by land
  for example, as we fly over the Caribbean Sea?
  This is the only evidence you have.

The islands are not connected most of you drew a
cross section!
The islands are not and are connected to each,
depending on whether you use an aerial or
cross-section perspective. What kinds of jobs
require the appropriate perspective?