He has never returned to embrace the arguments made in Explanation, but still he conforms to the critique of absolute space and exceptionalism in geography of the regional-historical tradition that he saw as an outcome of Kantian synthetic a priori knowledge.
Nikad se više nije vratio argumentima danim u Explanantion, no još se uvijek priklanja kritici apsolutnog prostora i ekscepcionalizma u geografiji regionalno-povijesne tradicije koju je vidio kao rezultat kantovskog sintetičkog a priori znanja.