At Yahoo!Answers I recently encountered the following question: I'm having trouble understanding Foundationalism and Coherentism? If I wanted to say that truth or knowledge lays in "objective facts"... for the most part. Would I class this as foundationalism - I suppose by saying that facts = foundation? Or, could I say that objective facts make sense and are consistent and cohesive with each other and us.. therefore... coherentism makes sense...? I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my mind around these concepts. Any help is appreciated. As regular readers of this blog know, I sometimes mine my answers from that site here simply to economize on anything that seems like work. I'm lazy, a bit like the fellow portrayed above. So I will proceed with the copy-and-paste. To the above I replied as follows.... You might begin by distinguishing between theories of truth on the one hand and theories of knowledge on the other. Both are parts of the broad...