ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Firster

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Firster is a noun meaning (in combination) A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).

Meaning

(in combination) A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Earlier, former.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include first, firstcomer, prioritizer, preferrer, leader, firstness.

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