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differentia

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The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.

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In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator. Suman Pokhrel

Furthermore, the differentia of an individual is synonymously called the identity of that individual. Source: Internet

Classes of intensional definitions main A genus–differentia definition is a type of intensional definition that takes a large category (the genus) and narrows it down to a smaller category by a distinguishing characteristic (i.e. the differentia). Source: Internet

Parviz Morewedge (New York, 1973), p. 43. since there cannot be more than one 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' without differentia (fasl) to distinguish them from each other. Source: Internet

However, if no differentia distinguishes them from each other, then there is no sense in which these 'Existents' are not one and the same. Source: Internet

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