differentia
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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
Such an idea has the differentia of intelligence.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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
What, according to Hobhouse, are the differentia of human morality from animal behavior?
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
If one of them only has this differentia, then this one is composite and is not the first cause.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
Some few diseases are, however, unequivocally referred to as infectious in a limited number of passages, e. g. ophthalmia, scabies, and phthisis in the περι διαφορας πυρετων, On the differentiae of fevers, K. vii, p.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
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
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
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
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
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