The phrase "bedrock of knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe fundamental principles or foundational information that supports further understanding or learning.
Example: "The bedrock of knowledge in this field is built upon years of research and experimentation."
Alternatives: "foundation of knowledge" or "cornerstone of understanding."
There's a palpable bedrock of scientific knowledge here, from the appetites of pandas to the complex navigatory impulses of the blackpoll warbler, "a four-inch long sprite knit of feathers, hollow bones and heart".
A consistent finding has been students complaining that there is no space made on the curriculum for different perspectives other than those of the "dead white men" who are the bedrock of university knowledge.
"Future Reflection" feels like a pointedly self-aware song title for Mr. Clayton, who comes from a bedrock of jazz knowledge and has devoted his mid-20s to the development of his own style.
(Chinen) ★ Gerald Clayton Duos (Friday and Saturday) A charismatic young pianist who hails from a bedrock of jazz knowledge, Gerald Clayton has delivered some great things with his working trio, and some deeply promising things with a recent sextet.
For me, it boils down to one important point: the internet is a shallow (but extremely wide) surface-level summary of secondary, often opinionated information that sits on a bedrock of substantive knowledge that either isn't on the internet, or lives behind a paywall, or is too expensive to purchase.
Fichte gave a practical or voluntarist cast to the formula cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), which Descartes had proposed as the bedrock of certainty on which the edifice of human knowledge could be constructed.
Santayana concludes that if one attempts to find the bedrock of certainty, one may rest his claim only after he has, at least theoretically, recognized that knowledge is composed of instances of awareness that in themselves do not contain the prerequisites for knowledge, e.g., concepts, universals, or essences.
Practitioner teachers, for a start, whose specialist knowledge is key to good art education: expertise is hard won and remains the bedrock of innovation.
