differentia

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Being without a serviceable differentia, he is unable to mark off the field of psychology from contiguous territory.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The formation of such rules, resting as it does on the power of framing and applying general conceptions, is the prime differentia of human morality from animal behavior.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

It would be difficult to find a stronger differentia from the work of the mere playwright, who invariably thinks first of the temporary conditions of success, and accordingly loses the success which is not temporary.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

A. All engraving must be cut work;—that is its differentia.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

The conception of stimulus and response gives us a differentia for experience and also enables us to distinguish within experience between consciousness and object.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.