'in foundational terms' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the basics or fundamentals of a specific topic or concept. For example: "In foundational terms, trigonometry is the study of angles and triangles."
A construction is here to be understood in the elementary sense of producing drawings or diagrams, using certain instruments, such as a ruler and/or a compass, and not in the modern sense in foundational terms, i.e., a constructive, axiomatic foundation for geometry.
Those distinctions sounded like we were talking about the underlying essence of authentic reform in foundational terms in a way that previous descriptions lacked.
But more characteristic for his approach, both in foundational and other contexts, is a related aspect.
By the late 19th century a different view had emerged, at least in foundational areas.
However, less attention has been paid to the role of student readiness in terms of foundational knowledge and attitudes at the commencement of practice education.
For the student, this requires that they are well prepared in terms of foundational knowledge and attitudes at the commencement of practice education.
In phenomenological terms, the basic or foundational pre-reflective articulation of the subject-object intentional relation has gone astray.
In particular, reductionist views take it that illuminating the nature of law is a matter of explaining what the law is, and how it operates, in terms of more foundational facts.
Thayer (1898: 266, 530) articulates its significance in terms of two foundational principles of the law of evidence: first, without exception, nothing which is not relevant may be received as evidence by the court and secondly, subject to many exceptions and qualifications, whatever is relevant is receivable as evidence by the court.
In particular, there were no definitions of these notions in terms of concepts accepted in the foundational systems designed for the reconstruction of classical mathematics (for example, Russell and Whitehead's theory of types or Zermelo's set theory).
McGrew (1995, 1999) argues that a certain kind of certainty or infallibility (in his terms, "incorrigibility") is a necessary feature of empirical foundational beliefs: a belief that P is empirically foundational only if being justified in believing that P guarantees its truth.
