Full Idea
The core of any form of foundationalism is the view that there are two forms of justification - inferential and non-inferential - and that non-inferential justification must be possible to avoid a sceptical regress.
Gist of Idea
Foundationalism requires inferential and non-inferential justification
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 4.1)
Book Reference
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.56
A Reaction
The foundation may be non-inferential, but is it also non-evidential, or devoid of any support at all, apart from its own eloquent self? I can't buy that, I'm afraid.