FIRST PHILOSOPHY


Meaning of FIRST PHILOSOPHY in English

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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.