differentia

Example Sentences

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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

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.

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

It would be difficult to find a stronger differentia from the work of the mere playwright, who invariably thinks first of the temporary conditions of success, and accordingly loses the success which is not temporary.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Being without a serviceable differentia, he is unable to mark off the field of psychology from contiguous territory.

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