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[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
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Full Idea
Strong foundationalists require truth-preserving inferential links between the foundations and what the foundations support, while weaker versions allow weaker connections, such as inductive support, or best explanation, or probabilistic support.
Gist of Idea
Strong foundationalism needs strict inferences; weak version has induction, explanation, probability
Source
Jonathan Kvanvig (Epistemic Justification [2011], II)
Book Ref
'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.27
A Reaction
[He cites Alston 1989] Personally I'm a coherentist about justification, but I'm a fan of best explanation, so I'd vote for that. It's just that best explanation is not a very foundationalist sort of concept. Actually, the strong version is absurd.
The
16 ideas
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[claim that knowledge foundations are possible]:
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2081
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Maybe primary elements can be named, but not receive a rational account
[Plato]
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24021
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The method starts with clear intuitions, followed by a process of deduction
[Descartes]
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3606
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I was searching for reliable rock under the shifting sand
[Descartes]
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2247
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To achieve good science we must rebuild from the foundations
[Descartes]
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2255
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Only one certainty is needed for progress (like a lever's fulcrum)
[Descartes]
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5033
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Nothing should be taken as certain without foundations
[Leibniz]
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6556
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If anything is to be probable, then something must be certain
[Lewis,CI]
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3597
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Foundations need not precede other beliefs
[Wittgenstein]
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8790
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The 'doctrine of the given' is correct; some beliefs or statements are self-justifying
[Chisholm]
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8841
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Modern foundationalists say basic beliefs are fallible, and coherence is relevant
[Cleve]
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4255
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Externalist theories of knowledge are one species of foundationalism
[Bonjour]
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2752
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Foundationalism requires inferential and non-inferential justification
[Dancy,J]
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2771
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Foundationalists must accept not only the basic beliefs, but also rules of inference for further progress
[Dancy,J]
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8849
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Traditional foundationalism is radically internalist
[Williams,M]
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3753
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Foundationalism aims to avoid an infinite regress
[Bernecker/Dretske]
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19678
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Strong foundationalism needs strict inferences; weak version has induction, explanation, probability
[Kvanvig]
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