Definition of "foundationalist" [foundationalist]

• A supporter of foundationalism, the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs (noun)

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• "With the word "foundation", I had assimilated the image of something that was based on a support and therefore, when Professor Grobstein said that a skyhook could be called foundationalist, I did not understand what he meant, and I thought he was himself confused about this affirmation that he had made."
• "Besides, the kind of foundationalist arguments people like Johnson want to advance don’t really work at all, and run up against even more insurmountable problems."
• "Why deploy word "inerrancy" which rose basically in response to challenges of science and specifically a kind of foundationalist epistemology in Descartes and in (most"