ABSTRACT
The discussion of methodology presented here attempts to relate geography to science. The province of the discussion extends past the consideration of scientific theory alone since it is necessary to establish the relationships between theory and other aspects of science, especially between theory and fact (description) and theory and logic (mathematics). The first section introduces a general philosophy of science with emphasis on the place of theory. The next section discusses two problems involved in considering geography as a science. These two problems concern the role of description in geography and the predictability of geographic phenomena. The third and last section, which draws heavily from Schaefer, 1 suggests a scientific methodology for geography and outlines the relationships between regional and descriptive, systematic and theoretical, and cartographic and mathematical geography.
