noun
definition
A distinguishing feature which marks a species off from other members of the same genus.
Examples of differentia in a Sentence
Pleasure in itself is unqualified, and affords no differentia.
There can here be no true differentia.
The major premise of syllogism, says the Pyrrhonist, is established inductively from the particular ' 'Errt4 opcc. = " in " as in i raywyi 7, inductio, and - 40pa = - ferentia, as in 8eoopa, differentia.
Of the self-subsistent definition is oboias Tis yvcwpcorOs' by exposition of genus and differentia.
It is this definitely rational tone that constitutes the differentia of the teaching of the sages.
In this irreversible catena proceeding from ground to consequent, we have left far behind such things as the formal parity of genus and differentia considered as falling under the same predicable, 3 and hence justified in part Porphyry's divergence from the scheme of predicables.
This classification, though it is of high value in the clearing up of our conceptions of the essential contrasted with the accidental, the relation of genus, differentia and definition and so forth, is of more significance in connexion with abstract sciences, especially mathematics, than for the physical sciences.