copulist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

copula +‎ -ist

Adjective[edit]

copulist (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a copula.
    • 1980, Lok Sabha Debates, page 339:
      This has become a c!ever tricky, copulist exercise. The Ruling Party's P.R.O. man has not applied his mind to make basic structural changes.
    • 2007 November 23, Günter Zöller, “Kant and the problem of existential judgment: critical comments on Wayne Martin’s Theories of Judgment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 1, →DOI:
      So there is no contradiction between a predicative and a copulist construal of singular existential judgment in Kant simply because the latter construal is not to be found in Kant.