differentia
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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
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
Universality not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 40 et seq.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It has also been called by some the differentia numerica, and by Scotists the haecceitas.
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
It is the mark of substances and of differentiae that, in all propositions of which they form the predicate, they are predicated univocally.
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
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
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
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
