fundamental(BASIC)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Being based on or depending on something
-based
as the case may bephrase
base something on something
bases
basis
dependently
divine right
entail
footing
found
ground
rest with someone
result from something
ride
ride on something/someone
rooted
spring from something
strength
understanding
wake

Examples of foundational

foundational
Through social practices, citizens or social agents adhere to these foundational principles for the sake of social recognition and reward, thereby ensuring their reproduction.
This set of results modifies the assertion that oral language is foundational to early reading.
Again, it is plausible that the clause would have foundational significance.
Similarly, whether the putatively foundational practice is consistent with all other law practices depends on the legal significance of all the law practices.
As with earlier criticisms of other foundational systems of language, the issue of the specification of the algorithim is relevant.
No one could have, because the foundational concepts were not in place.
In this climate, civic argument could be employed as a critique of political corruption as much as a foundational programme.
It is the peculiar burden of the philosopher to remain unsatisfied until the foundational issue has been resolved.
I think the most plausible form of consequentialism has a foundational principle that is impartial, maximizing and focused on the consequences of rules.
Foundational theories provide the semantics for the ontology and their axioms serve as a basis for the implementation of competency questions.
This first part of her book is foundational and impressive.
At least four foundational skills must be in place for infants to appreciate references to absent objects.
One foundational act invited foreigners to "colonize" the internal heartlands in order to give the local populations new models of enlightened work and life.
The first part concerns some foundational issues in the debate about color realism.
It is in this sense that the structural aspect of the idea of representation strikes us as being foundational.
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