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Differentia

In scholastic logic, differentia (also called differentia specifica) is one of the predicables; it is that part of a definition which is predicable in a given genus only of the definiendum; or the corresponding "metaphysical part" of the object. In the original, logical sense, a differentia is a concept – the notion of "differentia" is a second-order…

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related to history · 21
Differentia → Adiaphora, Although, Aristotle, Aristotle's, Boethius, Greek, Hellenistic, However, If, In Ancient Greek, Isagoge, Latin, Plato, Porphyry's, Pyrrhonism, Scotism, Suárezianism, The, These, This
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