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- Whose is the possessive form of the relative pronoun who. Which and that, the relative pronouns used for animals and objects, lack a possessive form, so whose can be used for their possessive forms as well, as in "the movie, whose name I can't remember."
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Nov 8, 2010 · The word “who” only refers to living beings. For non-living beings, “which” is used instead. The word “who’s” is the contraction of either “who is” or “who has”, but either way, “who’s first letter originates on the top row” is incorrect because it contains two verbs.
Aug 9, 2015 · In short, there is a difference between a living human entity at the cellular level and a person. Consider, for example, if I scratch my arm, many thousands of living human cells will...
Aug 20, 2002 · Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, moral agents, or material objects.
Mar 15, 2017 · Personhood is, therefore, used to explain why one entity (a person), has an enhanced moral status as compared with another (a non-person). In legal terms the concept of personhood is sometimes used to determine whether a claimant is entitled to rely on certain human rights or other legal claims which are restricted to persons (Griffin 2009 ).
- Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring
- 2017
Legal personhood is distinct from and dependent on ordinary understandings of what it means to be a human person. Yet not every human being is a person (slaves are not, for example), and there are some non-human entities (such as corporations) which are.
This article considers whether a nonhuman animal or any other entity could, under certain specifiable conditions, be a person. It approaches this subject through personhood theory and asks why certain attributes are thought so important to being a person.
