foundationalist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]foundational + -ist
Noun
[edit]foundationalist (plural foundationalists)
- (philosophy) A supporter of foundationalism, the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
- 2007 July 12, Harold Langsam, “Rationality, Justification, and the Internalism/Externalism Debate”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, :
- So the foundationalist holds that both experiences and beliefs can justify beliefs, whereas the coherentist holds that only beliefs can justify beliefs.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]a supporter of foundationalism
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Adjective
[edit]foundationalist (comparative more foundationalist, superlative most foundationalist)
- Of or relating to foundationalism.
- 2012, P.K. Moser, Empirical Justification[1]:
- Some philosophers have objected to certain foundationalist solutions to the regress problem on the ground that a person rarely, if ever, holds given-beliefs of the sort needed to justify observation beliefs.