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What is foundationalism?

What is foundationalism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
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So while foundationalism and descriptive metaphysics are not the same project, they share a metaphysical impulse shown in their reliance on an unanalyzed notion of necessity.
Now foundationalism is best construed, I think, as a thesis about rational noetic structures.
One is the rejection of foundationalism, which characterized modernism's theological reliance on science, psychology, and philosophy.
It is not lyric epistemological foundationalism, challenging enlightenment, on that score, but an account of everyday resourcelessness talking to children.
Furthermore, the Reformed objection to natural theology, unformed and inchoate as it is, may best be seen as a rejection of classical foundationalism.
A radical denial of foundationalism is offered by social constructivism, an approach that many researchers in mathematics education embrace.

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