A Study on Copulative Existence as Having No Essence, in Allama Tabatabai's Thought

The term “copulative existence” was used in philosophers’ statements before Mulla Sadra in two cases: (a) copulative existence in propositions; (b) existence in-itself for something else. Mulla Sadra would regard, in the light of the bases of transcendental theosophy, possible existence the same as copulation and relation to Necessary Being, freeing it from any independence, calling it “copulative existence”. The discussion on no essence of possible beings (copulative existence in transcendental theosophy) is a point of disagreement. Allama Tabatabai would regard them of no essence, proving this by existence of a correlation between having essence and conceptual independence. This theory has different philosophical results some of which can be found in issues such as status of discussion on essence in philosophy, dividing possible being into entity and accident, interpretation of relative categories and interpretation of distance. In the present article, we have investigated the reasons and results of this view in a descriptive-analytical way.