SolitaryWalker
Tenured roisterer
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w6
- Instinctual Variant
- so/sx
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Foundationalist
Foundationalists believe in logical, ordered opinions, built on other opinions. Building ideas is like building a house - you have to start at the most basic truths, and work your way up from there, otherwise it simply doesn't work. Thus, a foundationalist's entire goal is to find a single universal truth, that cannot be refuted by any argument. Once that truth has been found, everything else can fall into place. "I think, therefore I am" is often argued to be one of these basic truths.
Famous foundationalists include: Rene Descartes.
The opposite of Foundationalism is Realism.
Foundationalist
Foundationalists believe in logical, ordered opinions, built on other opinions. Building ideas is like building a house - you have to start at the most basic truths, and work your way up from there, otherwise it simply doesn't work. Thus, a foundationalist's entire goal is to find a single universal truth, that cannot be refuted by any argument. Once that truth has been found, everything else can fall into place. "I think, therefore I am" is often argued to be one of these basic truths.
Famous foundationalists include: Rene Descartes.
The opposite of Foundationalism is Realism.