Roderick Chisholm was a major player in helping to legitimize foundationalism. Foundationalism says it is justified for a person to believe at least part of its justification from basic propositions, which are themselves justified but not by anything else. A Coherentist on the other hand, is someone who completely rejects foundationalism, they deny that that all our justification traces back to things we are immediately justified in believing. So why is it that Chisholm needed Coherentism. The issue with foundationalism is that, it is not 100% consistent, so Coherentism comes into play in order for foundationalism to become 100% consistent as well as rational. While Roderick Chisholm was a large supporter of foundationalism he recognized
