Concept

Basic belief

Overview

Basic beliefs (also commonly called foundational beliefs or core beliefs) are, under the epistemological view called foundationalism, the axioms of a belief system.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Basic belief

• Alvin Plantinga

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Belief
• Reformed epistemology
• Foundationalism
• Self-evidence
• Anti-foundationalism
• John Locke
• Philosophical theory
• Worldview
• Thomas Aquinas
• Keith Lehrer
• René Descartes
• Justification (epistemology)
• Anthony Kenny
• Aristotle
• Inference
• Cogito, ergo sum
• Alvin Plantinga
• Epistemology
• Axiom
• Self-refuting idea

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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