Wikidiffcom vs Nonperson - What's the difference?
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Not a real person; a subhuman.
*1989 , Michael C. Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying , page 146
*:As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson , forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?
*1994 , Lisa J. McIntyre, Law in the Sociological Enterprise , page 92
*:Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson .
*1998 , John E. Tropman, Does America Hate the Poor? , page 6
*:How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a "lessperson," and then a nonperson .
Not a legal entity.
Something other than a person; an object.
*1995 , Roger K. R. Thompson, Natural and Relational Concepts in Animals'', in ''Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science , page 179
*:Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.
*2001 , Eric T. Olson, A Compound of Two Substances'', in ''Soul, Body, and Survival , page 77
*:No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.
*2002 , Ritva Laury, Interaction, grounding, and third-person referential forms'', in ''Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference (Frank Brisard, ed.), page 85
*:For example, Benveniste [...] discusses the connection of first- and second-person pronouns with the speech situation, and even goes as far as to claim that the third person is a nonperson , since the referents of third-person pronouns are not speech-act participants.