differentia
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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 George Saintsbury
The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
Objectification the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 44 et seq.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
Find the genus and differentia in the definition of “a good book of the hour.”
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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 Boyd H. Bode
If genera are different and co-ordinate, their differentiae are themselves different in kind.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
The Vicar, you must understand, had done his best to inculcate the recognised differentiae of a gentleman.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It is like as in the study of plants—classification by differentiae.
From Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Sir John Francis Davis
But it is also essential to the understanding of this thesis that the differentiae of the hereditary factors should be clearly grasped.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
But it is also essential to the understanding of this thesis that the differentiae of the hereditary factor should be clearly grasped.
From Evolution in Modern Thought by August Weismann
