ABSTRACT
Reason has attracted man since the Greeks, because it was something that a man could find within himself a few ideas or statements put together became a powerful entity. Reason, it seemed evident, represented and insisted upon one character which truth must have: truth must be consistent with itself. The whole notion of self-consistent action implied and rested on the supposition that there was some test or criterion of whether one set of actions produced results more desirable or less desirable than those of another set. The study of the pure application of reason drove out and logically excluded the question of the possibility, nature and source of knowledge. Rationality cannot span a temporal succession of situations. Each situation in such a series includes within its specification a specific collection of data available to a given individual. These data in the nature of things are confined at most to the present and the past.
