Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography”
An Anti-Universalist Response to Mark Denil
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https://doi.org/10.14714/CP98.1765Abstract
This paper responds to Mark Denil’s recent exposition in this journal of a conceptual theory of map. Denil advances a universalist position, that there exists an essential character of mapness that characterizes all maps. A key element of Denil’s essay is the dismissal of a strawman anti-universalism. This paper reasserts an anti-universalist understanding of maps and cartography to reveal the flaws in Denil’s essay.
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2022-12-19
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Edney, M. H. (2022). Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography”: An Anti-Universalist Response to Mark Denil. Cartographic Perspectives, (98), 51–60. https://doi.org/10.14714/CP98.1765
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