The epistemic principles of Michel Foucault genealogy

Michel Foucault was a contemporary philosopher with a global influence. He proposed serious critiques to the earlier intellectuals and was also influenced by many of them. The present study will only examine the epistemic principles of his genealogy through answering questions such as “how did Foucault define the truth? What path did he take to get to the truth? Was Foucault a relativist? In what domain was he a relativist and what was the basis of his relativism?” The analysis of the epistemic principles of genealogy showed that Foucault remained loyal to the theory of Coherentism in defining the truth through both stages. Moreover, in genealogy had nominalistic approaches and Foucault's choice of the varieties of relativism was ontological relativism and epistemological relativism. Loyal to Nietzsche and his ontological-relativist approaches, he extended the relativism maintained in genealogy and emphasized that, during every period in history, power determines the truth or falsehood of premises through discourse.