If justificatory standards are context-sensitive, then the regress terminates not in privileged foundational beliefs but in pragmatically accepted presuppositions relative to a context.
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foundationalism(Presented as the conclusion of the epistemic regress argument)
The epistemological view that some beliefs have justification without depending on other beliefs, serving as the non-inferential base for all other justified beliefs
justificatory standards(epistemology (the study of knowledge))
The rules or criteria we use to decide whether a belief is reasonable and well-supported.
pragmatically accepted presuppositions(epistemology and pragmatism)
Assumptions we make practical use of and agree to work with in a given situation, even if we can't fully prove them.