Phrases of philosophers: Logical Copulation

Philosophers see meaning in places and things that some people who are not philosophers may not have noticed. Philosopher George Englebretson sees a concept that many people had not noticed: the concept of “logical copulation.

Englebretson describes it on page 5 of his book Something to Reckon with: the Logic of Terms, published by University of Ottawa Press in 1996. Here is part of the explanation and/or demonstration of the term:

“… The second theory, having denigrated the grammatical differences between expressions (at least for logical purposes), solves the problem by positing a third expression, the sole duty of which is logical copulation.”