Basic belief

Basic beliefs (also commonly called foundational beliefs or core beliefs) are, under the epistemological view called foundationalism, the axioms of a belief system.
Categories of beliefs.
Foundationalism holds that all beliefs must be justified in order to be believed. Beliefs therefore fall into two categories:
Description.
Within this basic framework of foundationalism exist a number of views regarding which types of beliefs qualify as "properly" basic; that is, what sorts of beliefs can be justifiably held without the justification of other beliefs.
In , beliefs are held to be properly basic if they are either self-evident axioms, or evident to the senses (empiricism). However Anthony Kenny and others have argued that this is a self-refuting idea.
Anti-foundationalism rejects foundationalism and denies there is some fundamental belief or principle which is the basic ground or foundation of inquiry and knowledge.