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Given Singers criteria for ‘personness’ one must wonder if all the adults who suffer congenital insensitivity to pain must be considered non persons.
ProWomanProLife » Tough week, tough decade, tough future 2010
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But then the same analogy must hold for a mildly retarded human, though the gulf of “personness” would presumably be narrower.
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I had the opportunity to observe up close true cat personness when I lunched with several ladies whose cat obsessions make my own seem extremely mild in comparison.
idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2006
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Avec quelle joie ils virent dans la liste des membres de cette société, un nom cher à leurs coeurs, et qu'ils ne prononcent qu'aves attendrissement, et les noms d'autres personness connues par leur énergie et leur patriotisme!
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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