"foundational base" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to a basic set of facts, principles, or values that form the basis for more complex concepts or ideas. For example, you could say, "The study of mathematics is built on a foundational base of basic arithmetic."
The very ease with which the externalist can potentially broaden the foundational base of noninferentially justified belief is, ironically, one of the primary concerns of those philosophers unhappy with externalist epistemology.
García Márquez's background in journalism provided a foundational base for his writing career.
By improving the livelihood of the participants and create a foundational base for income generation, economic opportunity, and social awareness, the Kodike Mushroom Cultivating Project stands to truly transform the community.
This foundational base will be used as a marketing tool to encourage motivated students from any university to submit their own original investment ideas to be considered for publication on the website and newsletter of The Wonderkind.
The biochemical and pharmaceutical industries have largely developed from a foundational research base.
Green challenged attendees to contemporize ELSI research and stressed the importance for ELSI researchers to balance a foundational knowledge base with knowledge gained from acting as 'research SWAT teams' collecting empirical evidence to inform best practices.
In brief, this first year (DS1) course is designed to build a foundational knowledge base of oral pathogens and immunity, to help students describe the impact of oral pathogens on the orofacial areas, the concepts of mucosal immune mechanisms and the pathogenic mechanisms of the oral flora.
The theoretical contribution of this research is that it develops foundational simulation based methods that support the study of construction decision-making as a dynamic control problem.
When my work group was asked if dyslexic strengths were starting to become part of intervention plan, the sad conclusion was not only were they not, but the foundational research based intervention for reading was often not given to dyslexic students even if they were identified as dyslexic.
And in all these contexts, the pure concept in itself, embodying a entirely formal, logico-semantic category, cannot but continue to occupy the foundational role as base concept, upon which any and every more specific concept cannot fail to be constructed.
The metrics are categorized based on their foundational character (foundations), their use in practice (state-of-practice), their availability for practice (state-of-art) and those suggested for future exploration (state-of-future).
