In this context, two foundational elements of TV choice architecture are wildly irrelevant for the future but are still used as organizational principles for billion dollar decisions.
The chief obstacles to change lie in our conception of readers as information consumers, in our allegiance to library operations as the drivers of library design, and in the choice made between foundational and non-foundational views of knowledge.
I began the last section by saying that if foundational values are plural, then choices between them will be complex.
More worrisome, if the ontological commitments of theories do not parallel the ontological beliefs of a person who accepts the theory, then the foundational role of ontological commitment in theory choice will be diminished.
"But I decided that this year it was clear to me that Secretary Clinton's temperament, leadership experience and commitment to America's foundational values make her the far better choice for president".
The intrinsic desirability of such states of affairs as one's flourishing in life and health, in knowledge and in friendly relations with others, is articulated in foundational, underived principles of practical reasoning (reasoning towards choice and action).
The couplings of choices from these two systems are foundational to the process of affiliation.
[italic added for emphasis] This emphasis on reasoning or sense-making from foundational concepts is consistent with the engineering instructor's choice to devote one class period a week to activity around ARS questions.
Anytime you have a choice of covering "what is" and covering the foundational work of what might one day develop into something, there's a large demand to know "what is".
Thus (on this understanding) the objection cannot be properly answered by appealing to normative pluralism only foundational pluralism can really do justice to the complexities of choice.
