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Foundationalism (694 words) |
 | Foundationalism as understood by philosophers is first and foremost a position regarding the structure of justified belief or of knowledge. |
| Foundationalism thus divides justified beliefs into those that are justified by inference from others and those, the foundations or terminating nodes of a structure of reasons, that are justified without the necessity for inferencethose that are, in some sense, intrinsically reasonable for a subject to believe. |
| Foundationalism therefore does not rule out the possibility that, at one time, a subjects belief A could legitimately be used to support his belief B, while at another time B could support A. Foundationalists defend their position by two types of arguments. |
| Foundationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (473 words) |
| Foundationalism is any theory in epistemology (typically, theories of justification, but also of knowledge) that holds that beliefs are justified (known, etc.) based on what are called basic beliefs (also commonly called foundational beliefs). |
| Strictly speaking, neither empiricism nor rationalism is committed to foundationalism (it is possible to be an empiricist coherentist, for example, and that was a common epistemological position in 20th century philosophy). |
| Alternatives to foundationalism include coherentism and reliabilism (though this has sometimes been construed as an unusual variant of foundationalism). |
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