differentia

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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

Such an idea has the differentia of intelligence.

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

What, according to Hobhouse, are the differentia of human morality from animal behavior?

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

“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)

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)