differentia
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It would be difficult to find a stronger differentia from the work of the mere playwright, who invariably thinks first of the temporary conditions of success, and accordingly loses the success which is not temporary.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
“Animal” names the general class, and “reasoning” is the differentia which separates “man” from other “animals.”
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
The differentia of aesthetic pleasure not its universality.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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 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 Boyd H. Bode
Similarly, the definition of the differentiae will be applicable to the species and to 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
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
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
The Vicar, you must understand, had done his best to inculcate the recognised differentiae of a gentleman.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
