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In some editions this section is entitled Differentia jillorxim naturalium et adop -
The Institutes of Justinian Thomas Cooper , George Harris 1812
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Give instances of "Differentia," "Property," "Inseparable Accident"; and examine, with reference to your instances, how far it is possible to distinguish them.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Differentia - Characteristics distinguishing species
Notes on Aristotle's "Categories" Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Differentia - Characteristics distinguishing species
Archive 2009-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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First then, to-day, of the Differentia, or essential quality of
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859
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The Differentia, or specific difference, therefore, of man, as referred to the genus animal, is that outward form and the possession of reason.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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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_.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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In the Aristotelian phraseology, Genus and Differentia are of the
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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This surplus of connotation — this which the species connotes over and above the connotation of the genus — is the Differentia, or specific difference; or, to state the same proposition in other words, the Differentia is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus, to complete the connotation of the species.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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And here we may close this part of the discussion, and pass to the three remaining predicables, Differentia, Proprium, and Accidens.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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