What is a person?

Answer 1

A miserable pile of secrets.

Answer 2

per·son audio (pûrsn) KEY

NOUN:

1. A living human. Often used in combination: chairperson; spokesperson; salesperson.
2. An individual of specified character: a person of importance.
3. The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
4. The living body of a human: searched the prisoner's person.
5. Physique and general appearance.
6. Law A human or organization with legal rights and duties.
7. Christianity Any of the three separate individualities of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as distinguished from the essence of the Godhead that unites them.
8. Grammar
1. Any of three groups of pronoun forms with corresponding verb inflections that distinguish the speaker (first person), the individual addressed (second person), and the individual or thing spoken of (third person).
2. Any of the different forms or inflections expressing these distinctions.
9. A character or role, as in a play; a guise: "Well, in her person, I say I will not have you" (Shakespeare).

Answer 3

Any entity that has the moral right of self-determination

A person is an entity having a distinct identity with certain distinguishable and persistent characteristics. In the most common sense, a person is "a human being regarded as an individual." Beyond the general definition, however, remains a wide and varying range of alternative defining characteristics; some of which have evolved historically, and continue to shift with time and social context. Some noteworthy characteristics used to define a 'person' include personal identity, self-awareness, individuality, and a sense of self that persists through time. Other views centre around the degree to which properties such as agency (both human agency and moral agency) and rights are recognized and acknowledged in society or enforcable by law. The recognition of status as a person is known as personhood.

The inquiry into what it means to be a 'person' is the subject of considerable analysis and debate within diverse fields such as philosophy, law, religion, medicine, ethics, economic and political theory, human rights, and animal rights.

God Bless You

Answer 4

A person is a mixture of organs and tissues, coupled with a mind unlike the mind of any other species. A person is both a physical being like all animals i.e. rooted in the flesh. A person is also a smorgasbord of emotions and thoughts, a never-ending domino effect.

What makes us different is that we are also spiritual beings, who can comprehend the existence of a God and have the capabilities to reach Him.

Answer 5

1. a human being, whether man, woman, or child: The table seats four persons.
2. a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.
3. Sociology. an individual human being, esp. with reference to his or her social relationships and behavioral patterns as conditioned by the culture.
4. Philosophy. a self-conscious or rational being.
5. the actual self or individual personality of a human being: You ought not to generalize, but to consider the person you are dealing with.
6. the body of a living human being, sometimes including the clothes being worn: He had no money on his person.
7. the body in its external aspect: an attractive person to look at.
8. a character, part, or role, as in a play or story.
9. an individual of distinction or importance.
10. a person not entitled to social recognition or respect.
11. Law. a human being (natural person) or a group of human beings, a corporation, a partnership, an estate, or other legal entity (artificial person or juristic person) recognized by law as having rights and duties.
12. Grammar. a category found in many languages that is used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to or about whom he or she is speaking. In English there are three persons in the pronouns, the first represented by I and we, the second by you, and the third by he, she, it, and they. Most verbs have distinct third person singular forms in the present tense, as writes; the verb be has, in addition, a first person singular form am.
13. Theology. any of the three hypostases or modes of being in the Trinity, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
—Idioms
14. be one's own person, to be free from restrictions, control, or dictatorial influence: Now that she's working, she feels that she's her own person.
15. in person, in one's own bodily presence; personally: Applicants are requested to apply in person.

Answer 6

A person by definition is a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.

Answer 7

PERSON

Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French persone, from Latin persona actor's mask, character in a play, person, probably from Etruscan phersu mask, from Greek prosOpa, plural of prosOpon face, mask -- more at PROSOPOPOEIA
1 : HUMAN, INDIVIDUAL -- sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes
2 : a character or part in or as if in a play : GUISE
3 a : one of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians b : the unitary personality of Christ that unites the divine and human natures
4 a archaic : bodily appearance b : the body of a human being; also : the body and clothing
5 : the personality of a human being : SELF
6 : one (as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties
7 : reference of a segment of discourse to the speaker, to one spoken to, or to one spoken of as indicated by means of certain pronouns or in many languages by verb inflection

Answer 8

A real person is the driver of the body, the spirit soul. The body is just the exterior covering of the real self.

Answer 9

it is one of only three living things in this world that makes , and sings its own songs...
a gibon, a humpback whale and a human are the only 3 things

btw
a person is a functioning carbon based life form

Answer 10

A human. the only species of animals that believes in a god. The intelligent ones. The only ones who desire power over the world.

Answer 11

a legal human allowed to vote in Canada, as in the famous "Person's Act" where women acquired the vote