One problem is the problem of infinite regress: when is one justified taking things as axioms? Still, "foundations" can be nice because they may be the simplest way of unifying disparate pieces of knowledge... foundations give us links through which we get explanatory unification.
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Date: 2006-02-07 12:27 pm (UTC)One problem is the problem of infinite regress: when is one justified taking things as axioms? Still, "foundations" can be nice because they may be the simplest way of unifying disparate pieces of knowledge... foundations give us links through which we get explanatory unification.