differentia

Example Sentences

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Egotism is Montaigne’s note, his differentia, in the world of literature.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Nam si animali nulla differentia addi posset, genus non esset; et similiter est de omnibus aliis nominibus.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

The qualities which this general differentia has developed in French may now be enumerated.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Not a little error has resulted from the confusion of thought whereby genus and differentia have been regarded as material and formal constitutives in the literal sense of those expressions.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

The same is true of the differentia individua as compared with the natura specifica in the abstract.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter