地理学中科学方法的文章面对着四个读者群。第一个读者群主要是由自然地理学家所组成,他们认为他们的学科是自然科学的领域之一,因此他们对于科学方法的合理性是无所怀疑的第二个读者群是人文地理学家,他们认为科学方法对社会科学这一学科是适宜的,尽管他们认识到,这种运用引出了某些在经典自然科学中如在物理学及化学中所未曾碰到的问题。第三个读者群,包括那些主要从事人文地理的地理学家,他们认为,地理学这一主题使科学方法或准科学方法在 The article on scientific methods in geography faces four reader groups. The first group of readers, composed mainly of natural geographers who consider their subject to be one of the natural sciences, so they are skeptical about the rationality of scientific methods, is the second group of readers to be human geography They consider the scientific method to be appropriate for the social sciences, though they realize that such use leads to certain problems that have not been encountered in the classical natural sciences, such as physics and chemistry. A third group of readers, including geographers who are primarily engaged in human geography, argue that the subject of geography makes scientific or quasi-scientific approaches