copulatum. The term is sometimes used ambiguously, for ‘conjunctum.’
A conjunctive is called a copulative. But Grice obviously narrows down the use
of copulatum to izz and hazz. He is having in mind Strawson. The
formula does not allow for differences in tense and grammatical number; nor for
the enormous class of * all '-sentences which do not contain, as their main
verb, the verb * to be '. We might try to recast the sentences so that they at
least fitted into one of the two patterns * All x is y ' or ' All x are y ' ;
but the results would be, as English, often clumsy andt sometimes absurd. for Aristotle,
'Socrates is a man' is true "in virtue of his being that thing which
constitutes existing for him (being which constitutes his mode of
existence)," Hermann Weidemann, "In Defense of Aristotle's Theory of
Predication," p. 84— only so long as that "being" be taken as an
assertion of being per se. But Weidemann wants to take it merely copulatively.
In "Prädikation," p. 1196, he says that when 'is' is used as tertium
adiacens it has no meaning by itself, but merely signifies the connection of
subject and predicate. Cf. his "Aristoteles über das isolierte Aussagenwort,"
p. 154. H. P. Grice, "Aristotle on the Multiplicity of Being," also
rejects an existential reading of tertium adiacens and pushes for a copulative
one. Cf. Alan Code, "Aristotle: Essence and Accident," pp. 414-7.
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