first philosophy

first philosophy
noun
Usage: usually capitalized F&P
1. Aristotelianism : a study of being as being dealing with the fundamental type of being or substance upon which all others depend and with the most fundamental causes — distinguished from second philosophy; compare metaphysics
2. Aristotelianism : a study of supersensible immutable being — compare theology

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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