The phrase "as a foundational problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an issue that serves as a basis or core challenge in a particular context or field.
Example: "The lack of access to education is often viewed as a foundational problem that contributes to various social issues."
Alternatives: "as a core issue" or "as a fundamental challenge".
Hill (2004, p. 627, 628) argues that the concept of superaddition "is quite out of place" in connection with cohesion, because Locke regards cohesion as a foundational problem, which thwarts our efforts to conceive of body.
I will acknowledge systemic racism as a foundational problem in America and devote myself to support those who are working to change the system so that people of color can someday have the same benefits that my children have received as white Americans.
The only satisfactory explicit models of this type (which are essentially variations and refinements of the one proposed in the references Ghirardi, Rimini, and Weber (1985 , 1986, and usually referred to as the GRW theory) are phenomenological attempts to solve a foundational problem.
A foundational problem in kernel-based learning is how to design suitable kernels.
"It will mean that this agreement has seen a foundational problem, and under those conditions, Iran will be freed to choose another set of conditions," he said.
Rather, the point is that the MacCAT-T appears to be profoundly off the mark; that there is a foundational problem with the theory.
One scholarly debate about cohesion concerns the question of whether Locke acknowledged only the limited problem, as one would expect from commentators who read him as accepting atomism (e.g. Mandelbaum 1964, p. 1), or whether he looked further, to the more serious, foundational problem, as Hill argues (2004).
And it was the case also that after unification, instead of the problem — unification seen as a foundational moment for this new regime that's supposed to deliver civilization, economic betterment, progress, and also public health — but instead, the years at the end of the nineteenth century see the malarial problem, already intense, getting worse.
The second foundational problem was the lack of three critical planning tools: a realistic Theory of Change, an overarching Logic Framework and a tightly-integrated implementation plan.
The fourth foundational problem, the decision problem for predicate logic, was shown to have a negative solution in a short paper by Church in 1936 as a corollary to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Projective geometry has its own foundational problem, akin to that of distance in Euclidean geometry, which concerns the concept of cross-ratio, and we need to follow the moves to create projective geometry as an independent subject, to define cross-ratio in this setting, and to resolve the epistemological issues that are raised (an achievement associated with Klein's Erlangen Programme).
