Belief vs Foundationalism - What's the difference?
belief | foundationalism |
Mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-12-06, author=(George Monbiot)
, volume=189, issue=26, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
(countable) Something believed.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
(epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
*{{quote-journal, 2008, date=March 21, Bernd Buldt, Benedikt Löwe and Thomas Müller, Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9101-6, volume=68, issue=3, pages=
, passage=A radical denial of foundationalism is offered by social constructivism (Ernest 1998 ), an approach that many researchers in mathematics education embrace. }}
As nouns the difference between belief and foundationalism
is that belief is mental acceptance of a claim as likely true while foundationalism is (epistemology) the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.belief
English
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(en noun)Why I'm eating my words on veganism – again, passage=The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water.}}