logic - What is the nature of Aristotles differentia? - Philosophy . . . A species is defined by giving its genus and its differentia: the genus is the kind under which the species falls, and the differentia tells what characterizes the species within that genus As an example, human might be defined as animal (genus) having the capacity to reason (differentia) " –
philosophy of mathematics - Genus-Differentia and Mathematical . . . My initial gut reaction upon reading about SEAR was that it is to the type of definition I described as classical foundations (say ZF set theory) are to the genus-differentia description And the authors of that page, too, seem to feel that distinguishing "relationship" as a fundamental new type within the universe of discourse rather than
logic - Who invented definitions? - Philosophy Stack Exchange A species is defined by giving its genus (genos) and its differentia (diaphora): the genus is the kind under which the species falls, and the differentia tells what characterizes the species within that genus As an example, human might be defined as animal (the genus) having the capacity to reason (the differentia)
metaphysics - Why isnt differentia just quality in Aristotle . . . isn't rational or winged [specific differences] just Quality? You seem to be arguing for or implicitly assuming monism*, as though there were only one substance called "being" and the differences between substances really accidental or illusory
epistemology - What are some methods of defining things? - Philosophy . . . In Euclidian Geometry a square is a surface (Genus Proximum) which is both equilateral and right-angled (Differentia specifica) By convention: A definition that intentionally restricts the range of the defined notion to a particular field of application There are numerous such examples in science
How many predicables does Aristotle have? - Philosophy Stack Exchange This "what" can be fourfold: a definition (the essence), a unique property, a genus (including the differentia) or an accident Man is a rational animal (definition), rationality being its unique prop; its genus is animal and two-handed is an accidental property –
Can anything be described by describing what it is not? Can anything be described by describing what it is not? For example, a dog can be described as all that is not a dog "All crows are black": all things that are not black are not a crow but not all
logic - Pyrrhonian Skepticism - Philosophy Stack Exchange As for pragmata ‘matters, questions, topics’, they are all adiaphora ‘undifferentiated by a logical differentia’ and astathmēta ‘unstable, unbalanced, not measurable’ and anepikrita ‘unjudged, unfixed, undecidable’ " He further clarifies "pragmata" as all disputed moral things, matters, affairs or topics The term "adiaphora
how these two statements can be true at same time? It goes back to Aristotle's genus–differentia definitions, genus (fruit) is what they have in common and differentia is what makes them different species within it How commonalities or "common natures" attach to different species and individuals later became a long-standing philosophical problem, the problem of universals
descartes - Sartre and the cogito - Philosophy Stack Exchange When Sartre inverted the Aristotelian doctrine of essence before existence; should he also have inverted the Descartians cogito; not cogito, sum but sum, cogito; given that thinking is the essence of man (it is for Aristotle the differentia that differentiates us from animals)