firster
adjEtymology From first + -er (comparative suffix).
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Obsolete Earlier, former.
firster
nounEtymology From first + -er (“supporter”).
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In compounds A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).
- 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.2019, Branden Fitelson, Rodrigo Borges, Cherie Braden, Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification, Springer, →ISBN, page 5:
- Related terms
- America Firster, Israel-firster, twenty-firster