differentia
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This something has been called—after the analogy of the differentia specifica which differentiates species within a genus—the differentia individua of the individual.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
Not a little error has resulted from the confusion of thought whereby genus and differentia have been regarded as material and formal constitutives in the literal sense of those expressions.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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 Robert Ezra Park
It has also been called by some the differentia numerica, and by Scotists the haecceitas.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
If genera are different and co-ordinate, their differentiae are themselves different in kind.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
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
Similarly, the definition of the differentiae will be applicable to the species and to the individuals.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
