But needing those additional justified beliefs means B's justification depends on other beliefs, so B cannot be a foundationally basic belief.

Laurence BonJour (1985: ch. 4) raised a highly influential objection to foundationalism (an objection raised before he joined the ranks of foundationalists). The objection presupposed a strong form of what we might call access internalism. (We discuss the internalist/externalist controversy in more detail in section 6 below.) The access internalist argues, roughly, that a feature of a belief or epistemic situation that makes a belief foundationally justified for us must be a feature to which w