why is a term person is only for humans?
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2016-03-15 2:11 am
A "person" is a human being. Other things are not humans. You wouldn't say, "I am going to clean the person's litter box." People don't pee nor poop in litter boxes. The correct statement would be: "I am going to clean the cat's litter box."
2016-03-14 2:04 pm
Because only humans have a distinct personality.
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2017-03-26 3:17 pm
'cause that is the meaning the word has been given.........
2016-11-12 3:32 am
'cause that is the meaning the word has been given.........
2016-03-16 8:42 pm
United States Constitution, which states a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender, or Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees equality rights, apply to natural persons only. I am going to clean the person's litter box." People don't pee nor poop in litter boxes.
2016-03-15 5:34 pm
Persona is Latin for "sounding through" and originally meant speaking through the mouthpiece of a mask. As Greek and Roman actors on the stage always wore masks, the word came to mean "an actor" and then "a role in the theatre", then "a role in life, a character" and so eventually any human being, but especially one distinguished by his role in life. So we can talk of "personality" and (with a change in pronunciation) of a "parson", the priest in charge of a parish. One can also describe one's self as "one's person", and talk of one's "personal possessions." Although only a human being can have enough character to be called a "person", it is possible to talk of the way your pet behaves as an expression of its "personality."
2016-03-15 12:47 pm
Because that is the way that English works. You would not expect "human" to mean the same as "stone" or "truck", would you? Likewise you would not expect "person" to mean "aircraft" or "train", would you?
2016-03-15 8:35 am
In many cases, fundamental human rights are implicitly granted only to natural persons. For example, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender, or Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees equality rights, apply to natural persons only. Another example of the distinction between natural and legal persons is that a natural person can hold public office, but a corporation cannot.
2016-03-14 7:59 pm
Because that is the meaning the word has been given.
2016-03-14 2:19 pm
Bec asue thatg is how we decided to use it.
2016-03-14 2:05 pm
ummm...because that's what it is? there is only one definition that does not directly refer to a human being...that's definition number 5, and it refers to self-aware beings which is basically limited to human beings, the supernatural, and imagined characters
person
[pur-suh n]
noun
1. a human being, whether an adult or child:
The table seats four persons.
2. a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.
3. an individual human being who likes or prefers something specified (used in combination): I've never been a cat person.
4. Sociology. an individual human being, especially with reference to his or her social relationships and behavioral patterns as conditioned by the culture.
5. Philosophy. a self-conscious or rational being.
6. the actual self or individual personality of a human being:
You ought not to generalize, but to consider the person you are dealing with.
7. the body of a living human being, sometimes including the clothes being worn:
He had no money on his person.
person
[pur-suh n]
noun
1. a human being, whether an adult or child:
The table seats four persons.
2. a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.
3. an individual human being who likes or prefers something specified (used in combination): I've never been a cat person.
4. Sociology. an individual human being, especially with reference to his or her social relationships and behavioral patterns as conditioned by the culture.
5. Philosophy. a self-conscious or rational being.
6. the actual self or individual personality of a human being:
You ought not to generalize, but to consider the person you are dealing with.
7. the body of a living human being, sometimes including the clothes being worn:
He had no money on his person.
2016-03-14 1:57 pm
It's just vocabulary, and it's only in English.
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