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.

A. All engraving must be cut work;—that is its differentia.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

The essential property, the "differentia essentialis," of genuine love, as its nature requires fervency, is the fact that it cannot be embittered.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas

It has also been called by some the differentia numerica, and by Scotists the haecceitas.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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)