firsterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

firster (plural firsters)

1. (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.

関連する語

• America Firster
• Israel-firster
• twenty-firster

語源 2

first +‎ -er (comparative suffix)

形容詞

firster (comparative more firster, superlative most firster)

1. (obsolete) Earlier, former.