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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism

5033	Nothing should be taken as certain without foundations [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Nothing should be taken as certain without foundations.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Antoine Arnauld [1686], 1687.04.30)
	A reaction: This might leave open the option, if you were a modern 'Fallibilist', that something might lack foundations, and so not be certain, and yet still qualify as 'knowledge'. That is my view. Knowledge resides somewhere between opinion and certainty.