A genus–differentia definition is a type of intensional definition, and it is composed of two parts:
For example, consider these two definitions:
Those definitions can be expressed as one genus and two differentiae:
- the genus for both a triangle and a quadrilateral: "A plane figure"
- the differentia for a triangle: "that has 3 straight bounding sides."
- the differentia for a quadrilateral: "that has 4 straight bounding sides."
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