firster
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editfirster (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
editEtymology 2
editfirst + -er (comparative suffix)
Adjective
editfirster (comparative more firster, superlative most firster)