differentia

Example Sentences

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Such an idea has the differentia of intelligence.

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

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.

But it states an eternal verity, and so marks an essential differentia.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

Swift and Chatterton, with all their vast talents, wanted, we think, the fine differentia, and the genial element of real poetic genius.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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 Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)