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Foundationalism

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Foundationalism stops the regress with basic beliefs—beliefs justified without resting on others—on which everything else is built.

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A pyramid: perceptual or self-evident beliefs at the base, the rest stacked above. Descartes' cogito was built to be bedrock.

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The pressure point: which beliefs qualify as basic, and are they enough to hold the building?

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