firster
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
firster (plural firsters)
- (in combination) A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).
- 2019, Branden Fitelson, Rodrigo Borges, Cherie Braden, Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification, Springer, →ISBN, page 5:
- In recent years, “knowledge-first” epistemologists have worried that any analysis of knowledge fails to recognize that knowledge is more fundamental than epistemic analysis. Knowledge, the knowledge-firster contends, should be taken as an epistemic primitive.
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
first + -er (comparative suffix)
Adjective[edit]
firster (comparative more firster, superlative most firster)