> If it were foundational it would be peer reviewed in a journal article, not posted on a blog. What I think you are doing here is to DEFINE "foundational work

> If it were foundational it would be peer reviewed in a journal article, not posted on a blog. What I think you are doing here is to DEFINE "foundational work" as something that gets published in a journal. I don't mind if you use that definition, but if you do then the fact that all foundational work is published in journals is not insightful or informative, it is merely the definition. If, on the other hand, you intended for the statement to say something meaningful about how important scientific and mathematical work is communicated, then you need a different definition of "foundational". And you would have to look to that definition to decide whether this work was foundational, because if it was then it disproves your hypothesis: it would be a counter example that illustrates that some foundational work is shared in places other than journals.