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  1. Oct 2021
    1. . Division by non-essentials involves dividing a prior differentia-class by means of an unrelated difference. For example, you might first divide animals into winged and wingless, and then winged animals into wild and tame.

      That notion is very similar to the genus-differentia recommended for modelling of computational ontologies: https://philpapers.org/archive/SEPGFW.pdf

  2. May 2021