metanarratives. My reason for introducing this should now be clear. A set of ideas or a worldview that is foundational (in the second sense of foundationalism) to one’s thinking and action is clearly a metanarrative—perhaps even a grand metanarrative. Moderns in general have little aversion to any type of foundationalism, including those types which employ metanarratives. As we shall see, however, postmoderns reject all forms of foundationalism and are incredulous about all metanarratives.18