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            92  /   International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 10(35), Summer. 2023
               Mulla  Sadra,  following  his             existence,  which  is  the
            master,  has  separated  and                 existence  of  a  thing  in-
            formulated  the  term  between               itself,  and  this  (existence)
            relational existence and copulative          is used in the discussions of
            existence.      (Sadr      ad-Din            the three fundamental aspect

            Shirazi, 1981)                               of  existence  (Necessary
               Therefore, from Mir Damad’s               Existence, Contingent Existence
            time     onwards,      the    term           and  Impossible  Existence),

            copulative existence has been                and  it  is  that  which
            monopolized  in  the  meaning                establishes  the  relationship
            of predicate existence; Of course,           in the positive predications

            copulative  existence  is  not               towards  the  relationship  of
            only limited to accidents; But               the  unified  judgement  that
            in  addition, in  the  relation  of          exists  in  all  contracts.  In

            the  existence  of  forms  to  the           this     sense,     copulative
            soul and also in the relation of             existence  is  a  conceptual
            effect  to  cause.  This  is                 relation  that  cannot  be
            because  according  to  other                rationalized  independently.

            philosophers, the effect has an              That  is  one  of  its  literal
            independent  existence  that  is             meanings,       and     it    is
            related to the cause.                        impossible  to  separate  that

               Copulative existence (existence           state  from  it.  By  paying
            in-something  else)  has  two                attention  to  it,  it  takes  a
            meanings:                                    nominal meaning and becomes

               -  The  first  meaning  of                a  predicative  existence.
               copulative  existence  is  the            (Ibid)
               opposite     of    predicative
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