differentia
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This was the object of logicians when they laid down that a species must be defined per genus et differentiam, meaning by the differentia one attribute included in the essence, i.e. in the connotation.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by W. (William) Stebbing
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 W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 37 et seq.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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
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 W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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
All people can see this; but not all people can see further, or define the differentiae.
From Thoughts on Religion by Charles Gore
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
But while none of these twenty or more definitions is logical in the sense just defined, they all present one or other of the differentiae given by those in the text.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
