differentia

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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.

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 Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

The attribute or attributes whereby a species is distinguished from other species of the same genus, is called its differentia or differentiæ.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality.

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

Such an idea has the differentia of intelligence.

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