Abstract
Foundationalism claims that the justification of most of our beliefs depend on the justification of other beliefs, but to the exception, and that there are some beliefs (referred to as basic or foundational) that are justified for a person at a time and do not depend for their being justified on any other beliefs of that person being justified. Allowing the transitivity of dependence, foundationalism also states that all non-basic beliefs depend their justifiedness basic beliefs. Such an account of foundationalism may be natural, but if one wishes to think of coherence theories as rivals of foundationalism, it would be completely unsatisfactory because most coherence theories assert the existence of basic beliefs and have other beliefs depending on them for justification. Foundationalism is a theory that asserts the existence of basic beliefs. The main concern of this chapter is with the concept of dependence as it is found in the context of foundationalist theories, and in the more general context of the infinite regress argument.
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