Abstract

The present article consists of two main sections. In the first section the writer tries to deal with the topics which in contemporary epistemology has been advanced about tradional foundationalism, and in the meantime to show both the weaknesses and strengths of these theories briefly. Following this preliminary discussion, in the second section besides the review of Ibn Sina's point of view about the problem of foundation and principles of knowledge, it has been shown that this theory can be included in the foundationalist theories but with a special reading. This theory, with its characteristic features neither follows the present – day traditional foundationalism that we deal with in the first section nor is susceptible to the many difficullies of traditional foundationalism of today.