Do Foundationalists endorse circular reasoning?
Denies the non-circular clause in premise 4 of the Regress Argument According to Coherentism, a belief is justified for you when it fits together well with your other beliefs. Coherence requires that it be logically consistent with your other beliefs, and be supported by them (meaning that the belief in question is more likely to be true on the assumption that your other beliefs are true). Unlike the foundationalist, the coherentist does not have a strictly hierarchical view of justification. Coherentists do not assume that there are any basic beliefs. Even if there are, they do not play a special role in justificationa belief can be fully justified even if it is not supported by basic beliefs at all. If foundationalism conceives of justification like a building, then the coherentist conceives of justification as something like the surface of a ball. Each point on the surface is connected to (supported by) other points (some close, some distant), and no amount of traveling along the su
