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   Possibilism
   [politics] The Possibilists was a trend in the French socialist movement led by Paul Brousse, Benoît Malon and others who brought about a split in the French Workers` Party in 1882. Its leaders proclaimed what was essentially a reformist principle of achieving only what is `possible`, which...
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   Possibilism
   [geography] Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. In Cultural ecology Marshall Sahlins used this concept in order to develop alternative approaches to the environ...
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   possibilism
   (from the article `anthropology`) This latter view, known as `possibilism,` is still dominant in anthropology and many other social sciences and humanities, but possibilism itself has ...
   Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/99
   
   

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