split the difference
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With humans, though, you must take great care before concluding that any specific difference is innate, since our societies are so much more complex and varied than those of other animals.
From Economist • Aug. 15, 2017
And yet it is the very specific difference of our rule that it is rule by law and not despotism.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
"Nature is what informs a thing with its specific difference, "—i.e. which perfects the specific definition.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
It is clear then that there is in the soul a perception of such a generic and specific difference in relation to the desires, as of something fighting against and opposing them.
From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard
The specific difference is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus to complete the connotation of the species.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
