THE RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE AND FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF AFRICAN BELIEFS AND PRACTICES

ABSTRACT
Rationality is a core criterion of science. It becomes more complex when
other disciplines are argued not to be rational, except they follow methodologies
of science. This argument takes for granted the works of Evans Pritchard,
Michael Polanyi, and others which makes a case for rationality as a relative
concept that does not convey meaning in strict sense of science alone. Perhaps,
the demarcation between science and other disciplines brings to question the
rationality of the other disciplines including African beliefs and practices or
philosophy. T