differentia

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Poetry is a species of Fine Art, its differentia being the use of metrical language as its instrument.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Hoc argumentum praecipue ad juris consultos ecclesiasticos et civiles pertinet; et quamvis differentia sit inter jurisdictionem judicis civilis et ecclesiastici tamen judicium utriusque quatenus necessario pendet ab existentia conditionum physicalium in medici consilio situm est.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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.

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

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