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‖ differentia Logic.|dɪfəˈrɛnʃɪə|
Pl. -iæ |-ɪiː|.
[L. = difference, diversity; a species.]
The attribute by which a species is distinguished from all other species of the same genus; a distinguishing mark or characteristic; = difference n. 4 c.
1827Whately Logic ii. i. §4 (ed. 2) 62 Either the material part [of their essence] which is called the Genus, or the formal and distinguishing part, which is called Differentia, or in common discourse, characteristic. 1850Kingsley Tennyson Misc. I. 218 This deep, simple faith in the divine⁓ness of Nature..which, in our eyes, is Mr. Tennyson's differentia. 1851Mansel Proleg. Logica i. (1860) 54 The concept whiteness, as a species of colour, is capable of definition by its optical differentia. 1889A. Lang Introd. Romilly's Verandah N.G. 17 To be inconsistent and incoherent and self-contradictory is the very differentia and characteristic of myth. 1889R. L. Ottley in Lux Mundi (1890) xii. 476 To arrive at the true differentiæ of Christian morals. |