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.
I prefer--having been brought up at the feet of Logic--to stick to the genus and differentia of poetry, and not to its accidents.
In this cognition neither the genus nor the differentia is presented to consciousness; all that is present there is the individual wherein these two subsist.
But while it is not easy by attention to complexity of structure always to distinguish a tool from a machine, nothing is gained by making the differentia of a machine to consist in the use of a steam or other non-human motor.
Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.
It is, therefore, established that in every proposition, of which either substance or a differentiaforms the predicate, these are predicated univocally.
Si ergo aliqualiter inueniri possit differentia in proximo, quanto maior sit distantia, tanto maior differentia æstimandi est in remoto, vel in remotiori, seu remotissimo loco.
The same is true of the differentia individua as compared with the natura specifica in the abstract.
This something has been called--after the analogy of the differentia specifica which differentiates species within a genus--the differentia individua of the individual.
It has also been called by some the differentia numerica, and by Scotists the haecceitas.
Predicate; (2) the Class whose Differentia is contradictory to that of the Predicate.
Members of the Class whose Differentia is contradictory to that of the Predicate.
If we think of a certain Class, and imagine that we have picked out from it a certain smaller Class, it is evident that the Remainder of the large Class does not possess the Differentia of that smaller Class.
Example of enclosing the genus in the differentia is, number given as the essence of the odd.
It may also enunciate the differentia either as a part of the genus or as a part of the species; or it may enunciate the genus either as a part of the differentia or as a part of the species.
The differentia is not a genus, nor does it respond to the question Quid est, but to the question Quale quid est.
When the definition of the differentia has thus been tendered, you will examine whether it will be equally suitable for any other definiend also.
Perhaps the definition may enunciate a differentiawhich is merely negative; e.
Differentia declares a quality of Genus, and therefore presupposes Genus as already known; but Genus does not in like manner presuppose Differentia.
No genuine differentia can be derived either from the Category Ubi or from the Category Passio; for neither of them furnishes characteristics essential to the subject.
Example of enunciating differentiaas a genus is, if immortal be given as the genus to which a god belongs.
If I further restrict the class, at the beginning, to instruments with metal strings, I need then to employ only such differentia as will set it off, perhaps, from instruments that do not have a sounding board for their metal strings.
You will make this exclusion by choosing both class and differentia with the greatest care.
This adjective or this phrase is likely to be the expression ofdifferentia among smaller classes, the differentia among individual members being stated more at length later in the definition.
And of course they also serve to show the differentia which make the character an individual, and thus help to complete the definition.
When a class which itself contains other possible classes is chosen, a long list of differentia will be necessary.
Is the definition of a Responsible Statesman any the less sound because the differentia are duties rather than facts?
If I restrict the class to stringed instruments, I thereby exclude the differentia of both wind instruments and instruments of percussion.
Discover the restricting adjectives or phrases that will reduce the number of differentiarequired by the genus in the following definitions: 1.
For convenience in keeping the list of differentia reasonably small, to avoid unwieldiness of definition, care must be exercised in choosing the class.
This necessity is apparent as soon as we remember that the differentia are of vital importance, that we understand the subject only when we see how it differs from other members of the same class.
Write a theme using the differentia noted, and trying to catch in the theme the spirit that is shown in the lists.
To avoid yielding to such temptation, you will do well, after a definition is complete, to phrase it in a single sentence which shall include both differentia and genus, and in which you can easily discover the evil formula x is x.
If we allow a differentia to what is not really a species.
The Aristotelians say No; having laid it down that the differentia must, like the genus and species, be of the essence of the subject.
Differentia being seldom taken to mean the whole of the peculiarities constitutive of the species, but some one of those peculiarities only, a complete definition would be per genus et differentias, rather than differentiam.
This notion would account for the rule that all definition must necessarily be per genus et differentiam, and would also explain why a single differentia was deemed sufficient.
However this may be, they were satisfied with taking such a portion of the differentia as sufficed to distinguish the species from all other existing things, though by so doing they might not exhaust the connotation of the name.
On this account it was that rationality, being connoted by the name man, was allowed to be a differentia of the class; but the peculiarity of cooking their food, not being connoted, was relegated to the class of accidental properties.
No: very well, then; since the works of Sophocles are fine literature, it follows that some fine literature does not reflect ordinary life, and therefore that fidelity to nature is not the differentia of the highest art.
But art is born with man, and is of the essence, the very differentia of man.
The conception of stimulus and response gives us a differentia for experience and also enables us to distinguish within experience between consciousness and object.
It is presupposed, of course, that the behavior with which psychology is concerned is of a distinctive sort; but the differentia is unfortunately the very thing that the "behaviorist" has hitherto left out of account.
The differentiais that part of a definition which names the difference between the term defined and the general class to which it belongs.
Genus and differentia are found in every good definition.
Find the genus and differentia in the definition of "a good book of the hour.
The differentia should include all the members that the term denotes, and it should exclude all that it does not denote.
If the distinguishing characteristics are not properly selected, the definition though logical in form may be inexact, because the differentia do not exclude all but the term to be defined.
A design which was probably a favourite one of Berthelet's is found on a copy of Opus eximium de vera differentia Regiae Potestatis et Ecclesiasticae, printed by him in 1534 (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "differentia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
