essay brainlock
Dec. 6th, 2003 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angledgeOK, I need a word. This word means "cause-explaining", as in looking at past events & explaining why things are now the way they are. Here's the sentence:
'This inability prevents geographers from using GIS in either a [cause-explaining] or predictive role, for as Hägerstrand noted as early as 1970, “geographical information is time as well as space-specific” (Gittings, 2003[a]).'
Yes, I realise the sentence as a whole kind of sucks. But I don't feel like refining it until I've got the word I want.
'This inability prevents geographers from using GIS in either a [cause-explaining] or predictive role, for as Hägerstrand noted as early as 1970, “geographical information is time as well as space-specific” (Gittings, 2003[a]).'
Yes, I realise the sentence as a whole kind of sucks. But I don't feel like refining it until I've got the word I want.
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Date: 2003-12-06 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-06 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-06 09:03 pm (UTC)http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=causative
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Date: 2003-12-07 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-07 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-07 08:28 am (UTC)Explanatory?
Explicative? (don't even know if that one's a real word)
examining root causes ....
Argh! Essay due tomorrow morning.
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Date: 2003-12-07 08:32 am (UTC)'This inability hampers the use of GIS in diagnostic or predictive roles, for as Hägerstrand noted as early as 1970, “geographical information is time as well as space-specific” (Gittings, 2003b).'
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Date: 2003-12-07 11:27 pm (UTC)?
Sorry I'm late.
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Date: 2003-12-08 02:17 am (UTC)