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The concept of rationality has often been discussed within the restrictive bounds of the Cartesian dualism between mind and body, reason and tradition. In this thesis, I have sought to question this sharp distinction between reason and tradition. On the strength of my study in the work, I am led to think that the questions of theoretical rationality as in mathematics and the sciences, as well as of practical rationality as in the value disciplines or in choosing one from amongst different competing theories and traditions, cannot be asked nor answered in isolation from their relevant traditions of inquiry (the epistemic enterprise), that rationality essentially is tradition embedded. Given the plurality of diverse traditions, problems of relativism and incommensurability arise. I endeavour to address these problems in the light of the brute fact of actual contact, interaction, understanding and communication between different traditions. I show that the incommensurability thesis does not necessarily lead to relativism and that the view of tradition embedded rationality which is maintained in this work need not be characterized as relativistic. In the course of my argument, I have considered different ways of examining the issue of conflict resolution between rival traditions in terms of growth and development of inquiry with a view to transcending the narrow limitations of particular viewpoints.

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