A person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
شخص موجودیست، مثلاً انسان، که قابلیت‌ها یا ویژگی‌های خاصی دارد که تشخص او را تشکیل می‌دهد، و تعریف دقیق آن موضوع اختلاف بسیار است.