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Foundationalism vs Foundherentism - What's the difference?

foundationalism | foundherentism |

As nouns the difference between foundationalism and foundherentism

is that foundationalism is the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs while foundherentism is a theory of justification that combines elements from the two rival theories addressing infinite regress: foundationalism and coherentism.

foundationalism

English

Noun

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  • (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. }}

    Related terms

    *antifoundationalism *foundationalist *postfoundationalism

    See also

    *(wikipedia "foundationalism")

    foundherentism

    English

    (wikipedia foundherentism)

    Noun

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  • (philosophy) A theory of justification that combines elements from the two rival theories addressing infinite regress: foundationalism and coherentism.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, date=October 26, Lydia McGrew and Timothy McGrew, Foundationalism, Probability, and Mutual Support, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-007-9062-1, volume=68, issue=1, pages=
    • , passage=But one of the express tenets of foundherentism is that “there need be no privileged class of empirical beliefs justified exclusively by the support of experience, independently of the support of other beliefs” (Haack 1993 , p. 19). }}

    Related terms

    * foundherentist