differentia
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The same is true of the differentia individua as compared with the natura specifica in the abstract.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
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.
The Aristotelians said that the differentia must be of the essence of the subject.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
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
Musset, who was very much of a free-lance in the contest, maintained indeed that the differentia of the Romantic was the copious use of this part of speech.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Similarly the differentiae are predicated of the species and of the individuals.
From The Categories by Edghill, E. M.
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 Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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 Edghill, E. M.
Yet this is not peculiar to substance, for it is also the case that differentiae cannot be present in subjects.
From The Categories by Edghill, E. M.