![]() ![]() It can, therefore, be said that a philosophy resembling possibilism had its origin in the classical antiquity, but Plato did not express it clearly. The view expressed by Plato about capabilities of man was very close to the philosophy of possibilism. This deduction based on a priori theory became a legitimate basis for enquiries in the subsequent centuries. It was he who formulated the idea of man as an agent of change on the Earth’s surface. Proceeding from general to the particular, Plato sought to infer that men tended to make changes in the land they occupied and soil erosion and land destruction were parts of their material culture. ![]() ![]() Plato (428-348 B.C.), who was the master of deductive reasoning, said that the observable things on the Earth were only poor copies of ideas, or perfect predicates from which observable things had degenerated or were in the process of degeneration. ![]()
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