The differentia between a crocodile and an aligator is obvious. From LearnThat.org.
The character that distinguishes one species from others within the same genus is called the differentia specifica. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Popularly this was described by saying that the differentia is the knife that carves a species out of the genus. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
For we are still faced with the apparent fact that genus + differentia constitutes a plurality even if the differentia is the last, or “completing,” one. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Metaphysics] Reference
This gives the 'differentia' of the Utilitarian considered as one species of the genus 'Radical.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
For each differentia must be presented by some species. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
May we not, then, consider straightness as a differentia of “line”?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Substance, inasmuch as the differentia of a substance is no more present in. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Its differentia is that which separates it from the unit of common humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
If this is a state of some peculiar kind, what precisely is its differentia?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
The differentia, then, should be distinguished from the genus in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
For then, clearly, this could not be a specific differentia of the genus: for. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
There is Motion in both Action and Passion, but the differentia distinguishing. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Cleft-footed animal, this single differentia would duly represent his essence. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
Moreover, see whether he has placed the genus inside the differentia, by making. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Moreover, no room is left for a differentia by which this Something may be distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
For the general view is that the same differentia cannot be used of two non-subaltern genera. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Clearly, then, a bad mistake has been made; for the differentia of a thing is never its genus. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Look and see, further, whether the differentia belongs only by accident to the object defined. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Animal cannot exist in re without the differentia “ra - tional” or the differentia “irrational.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
For annul the genus and differentia, and the species too is annulled, so that these are prior to the species. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
For if they had souls, those souls might be immortal; and if they were intelligent, what became of man's differentia?. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
But all the same, if ever the differentia does denote existence in something, clearly he will have made a bad mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Yet a generic differentia must be subdivisible; for otherwise what is there that makes it generic rather than specific?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
No single differentia, I repeat, either by itself or with its antecedents, can possibly express the essence of a species. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
Quality is never a differentia of Quality, any more than Substance is a differentia of Substance, or Quantity of Quantity. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Sometimes the final differentia of the subdivision is sufficient by itself, and the antecedent differentiae are mere surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
It is impossible that a single differentia, either by itself or with its antecedents, shall express the whole essence of a species. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
If, however, this be no true differentia, no more is the one adduced, seeing that it is a co-ordinate member of a division with this. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Look and see also if the differentia mentioned belongs to a different genus, neither contained in nor containing the genus in question. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
For the genus ought to divide the object from things in general, and the differentia from any of the things contained in the same genus. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Every differentia introduces a duality destroying the unity; for the addition of any one thing always does away with the previous quantity. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
What is the ground for distinguishing between habit and disposition, seeing that no differentia of Quality is involved in permanence and non-permanence?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
It is, therefore, established that in every proposition, of which either substance or a differentia forms the predicate, these are predicated univocally. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
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