differentia

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Nam si animali nulla differentia addi posset, genus non esset; et similiter est de omnibus aliis nominibus.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Such an idea has the differentia of intelligence.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

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 Saintsbury, George

To quote the differentia of Sir Oliver Lodge: “A solid has volume and shape; a liquid has volume, but no shape; a gas has neither volume nor shape.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

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