To say «first,» of course, is not necessarily to speak in temporal terms; essentially it is to
assert logical priority.
As stated, these questions are in the order of
logical priority.
For terrestrial and contingent beings, these two aspects are always inseparable - although that does not mean they are indistinct and that one can not have
logical priority.
A case can be made for affirming
the logical priority of the former with respect to the latter, and thus a parallel case can be made for placing the arts at the fulcrum of the educative process.
This procedure means, in effect, the assigning of
a logical priority to the specification of a frame of reference for the purposes of subsequent physical analysis.
Here is
the logical priority of our results.