The mutual support claim therefore presupposes a foundationalist epistemological framework that is itself contested, making the alleged convergence question-begging against coherentist opponents.

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Coherentism(Epistemology; theory of epistemic justification): A doxastic theory of justification holding that only beliefs can serve as evidence, and that justification derives from the internal coherence of a belief system
Coherentist opponents(epistemology): Philosophers who reject foundationalism and instead believe knowledge comes from how well beliefs fit together like puzzle pieces.
Epistemological framework(as used in philosophy): A basic system of beliefs about what counts as knowledge and how we can know things—basically, the rules a culture uses to figure out what's true.
Mutual support claim(epistemology): The assertion that different pieces of evidence or arguments strengthen each other and prove something together.
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
question-begging(Epistemology, anti-skeptical argumentation): A charge leveled against anti-skeptical arguments that assume what they set out to prove, particularly in Putnamian externalist arguments

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