differentia

Example Sentences

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“Animal” names the general class, and “reasoning” is the differentia which separates “man” from other “animals.”

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

Not a little error has resulted from the confusion of thought whereby genus and differentia have been regarded as material and formal constitutives in the literal sense of those expressions.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Egotism is Montaigne’s note, his differentia, in the world of literature.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

The differentia should include all the members that the term denotes, and it should exclude all that it does not denote.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

Non enim animal potest esse absque rationali vel irrationali differentia, quamvis sine his differentiis consideretur; licet enim cogitetur universale absque additione, non tamen absque receptibilitate additionis est.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter