This paper systematically combs the related achievements of space research,based on the differences in disciplinary perspectives,and traces back the space research vein of philoso-phy,sociology,and geography,this paper makes a distinction between empiricism,pragmatism,and criticism,and probes into the knowledge pedigree of space research.The fuzziness of the concept,especially the confusion about the use of the concept of"Space",is an important prob-lem in the study of space theory,in the context of the"Spatial turn"in humanities and social sci-ences and the"Social turn"and the"Cultural Nothing in Common"in geography,the exploration of geography breaks the single thinking pattern of space research,and the analysis frame of"Time-space-society(or attribute)"has become the most powerful analysis tool to explain geo-graphical phenomena and construct geographical order.The imagination of geography is funda-mentally reshaped through the intersection and collision of disciplines.Through the analysis of knowledge archaeology of"space",this study reveals the internal process and logic of the evolu-tion of space research in the ontological sense,which can establish a platform for dialogue and exchange for interdisciplinary research on space problems,and also provide a useful mirror for the self-reflection and critical reflection of the current geography discipline.
space researchdimensiongeographical imaginationspace-time thinking