differentia

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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 is presupposed, of course, that the behavior with which psychology is concerned is of a distinctive sort; but the differentia is unfortunately the very thing that the "behaviorist" has hitherto left out of account.

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

Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 37 et seq.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

Musset, who was very much of a free-lance in the contest, maintained indeed that the differentia of the Romantic was the copious use of this part of speech.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

This was the object of logicians when they laid down that a species must be defined per genus et differentiam, meaning by the differentia one attribute included in the essence, i.e. in the connotation.

From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)