differentia
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These subjects make explicit dealing with himself difficult, if not impossible: but his differentia as regards them may, with the aid of a little dexterity, be put without offence.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
The qualities which this general differentia has developed in French may now be enumerated.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 37 et seq.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
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 George Saintsbury
It is presupposed, of course, that the behavior with which psychology is concerned is of a distinctive sort; but the differentia is unfortunately the very thing that the "behaviorist" has hitherto left out of account.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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
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
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
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
