First Philosophy

noun

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

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