differentia
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What, according to Hobhouse, are the differentia of human morality from animal behavior?
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
The differentia should include all the members that the term denotes, and it should exclude all that it does not denote.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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 John Nicholas Lenker
The differentia is that part of a definition which names the difference between the term defined and the general class to which it belongs.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 37 et seq.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
Similarly the differentiae are predicated of the species and of the individuals.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
If genera are different and co-ordinate, their differentiae are themselves different in kind.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
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
Yet this is not peculiar to substance, for it is also the case that differentiae cannot be present in subjects.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
After all, what are the chief differentiae between man and the brute creation but that he clothes himself, that he cooks his food, that he uses articulate speech?
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
