differentia

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Find the genus and differentia in the definition of “a good book of the hour.”

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

“Animal” names the general class, and “reasoning” is the differentia which separates “man” from other “animals.”

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

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.

It has also been called by some the differentia numerica, and by Scotists the haecceitas.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

The essential property, the "differentia essentialis," of genuine love, as its nature requires fervency, is the fact that it cannot be embittered.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas