The phrase "a foundation of knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a base or underlying set of information or understanding that supports further learning or development.
Example: "The course is designed to provide students with a solid foundation of knowledge in the principles of economics."
Alternatives: "a base of understanding" or "a bedrock of information."
The skills of historical analysis are best built on a foundation of knowledge about what we think happened.
They are also much more interested in work that leads to immediate results and less willing to finance basic epidemiological research that scientists say is necessary to establishing a foundation of knowledge about the connection between guns and violence, or the lack thereof.
Conclusions: This model provides a foundation of knowledge regarding biomechanical strains in the maxilla subjected to static compressive loads in the force range of mastication.
Teacher trainings (Figure 3e) and special school curricula for children in order to provide a foundation of knowledge at a young age, as well as to educate and motivate their families (e.g., Driedger et al. [2014]).
Furthermore, a foundation of knowledge and justified belief restricted to infallible beliefs (as defined above) would arguably be far too flimsy to support any sort of substantial epistemic edifice.
Most of them also explicitly endorse classical foundationalism: like Russell, they hold that all knowledge or justified belief ultimately depends on a foundation of knowledge or justified belief acquired by acquaintance.
As characteristic of Enlightenment epistemology, Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781, second edition 1787) undertakes both to determine the limits of our knowledge, and at the same time to provide a foundation of scientific knowledge of nature, and he attempts to do this by examining our human faculties of knowledge critically.
By "professional competence" we mean the ability to appropriately apply the combination of knowledge, experience and judgment, which is built on a foundation of skills, knowledge and moral development [ 45, 46].
The foundationalist's thesis in short is that all knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a foundation of noninferential knowledge or justified belief.
Learning about the role of empirical evidence as a foundation of scientific knowledge is critical to shaping one dimension of epistemological understanding: Is knowledge justified by omniscient authority or evidence (Schommer, 1990)?
Successful communication relies on a foundation of mutual knowledge or common ground [6].
