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Full Idea
What foundationalism requires is self-justification, which is weaker than incorrigibility.
Clarification
'Incorrigibility' means cannot be corrected
Gist of Idea
Foundationalism requires self-justification, not incorrigibility
Source
J Pollock / J Cruz (Contemporary theories of Knowledge (2nd) [1999], §2.5.3)
Book Ref
Pollock,J.L./Cruz,J: 'Contemporary Theories of Knowledge (2nd)' [Rowman and Littlefield 1999], p.59
A Reaction
The writers oppose foundationalism, but this remark obviously helps the theory. Bonjour votes for a fallible rationalist foundationalism, and an fallible empiricist version seems plausible (because we must check for hallucinations etc.).
| 1670 | When you understand basics, you can't be persuaded to change your mind [Aristotle] |
| 20795 | Some things are their own criterion, such as straightness, a set of scales, or light [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 5004 | We can know basic Principles without further knowledge, but not the other way round [Descartes] |
| 23245 | Knowledge can't be its own foundation; there has to be regress of higher and higher authorities [Fichte] |
| 6944 | Demonstration does not rest on first principles of reason or sensation, but on freedom from actual doubt [Peirce] |
| 4257 | The big problem for foundationalism is to explain how basic beliefs are possible [Bonjour] |
| 2756 | If basic beliefs can be false, falsehood in non-basic beliefs might by a symptom [Dancy,J] |
| 8896 | Conscious states have built-in awareness of content, so we know if a conceptual description of it is correct [Bonjour] |
| 8853 | Basic judgements are immune from error because they have no content [Williams,M] |
| 3580 | Experience must be meaningful to act as foundations [Williams,M] |
| 6353 | People rarely have any basic beliefs, and never enough for good foundations [Pollock/Cruz] |
| 6361 | Foundationalism requires self-justification, not incorrigibility [Pollock/Cruz] |
| 4582 | Basic beliefs are self-evident, or sensual, or intuitive, or revealed, or guaranteed [Baggini /Fosl] |
| 8845 | An experience's having propositional content doesn't make it a belief [Pryor] |
| 19719 | 'Moderate' foundationalism has basic justification which is defeasible [Grundmann] |