foundationalism
noun
foundationalism is a noun meaning “The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-N-D-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foundationalism mean?
noun
- 1
The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foundationalism?
Foundationalism appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Foundationalism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fundacionalismo, fundacionismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.